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In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:...

Democrats have occupied the White House for 15 of the past 23 years, and Thomas Frank pointedly asks: What do they have to show fo...

Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...

Cassandra Clare, creator of the internationally best-selling Mortal Instruments series, now towers as an author of young-adult fan...

Craig Cobb was already notorious before trying to take over Leith, North Dakota, and turn it into an Aryan enclave some three years ago. The struggle...

The acclaimed 2010 film Black Swan offers a strange and terrifying interpretation of the dance world, revolving around a bal...

Biographer Arnold Rampersad discusses Harlem Renaissance luminary Langston Hughes and his relationship with a number of photograph...

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...

At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush...

Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in...