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Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...

Renowned stage and screen actor Hal Holbrook visits the Kansas City Public Library on Wednesday, November 9, 2011...

Historian and constitutional lawyer David Stewart discusses his new biography of Aaron Burr – America’s third vice president and one...

As a precursor to Global Entrepreneurship Week, Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation wi...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III launches its second season with a conversation with Mark Twain, as portrayed by...

The third installment in the series that focuses on local entrepreneurs features Mary Carol Garrity, founder of Nell Hill’s and on...

Faced with a divided nation, Abraham Lincoln deemed the loyalty of the border slave states crucial to the preservation of the Union. But while most sc...

American Library Association President Molly Raphael explains why current social and economic conditions are forcing libraries of all...

Biographer James Grant discusses his new portrait of late nineteenth-century Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives...

In his New York Times best-selling book, Frank Schaeffer uses his life as a lens through which to view a larger narrative...