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In an illustrated discussion marking the launch of his book Kansas City Houses 1885–1938, local scholar Michael C. K...

In a discussion of his new biography Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father...

University of South Carolina scholar F.K. Clementi examines the origins of the Holocaust, and looks beyond the rise of Adolf Hitler and German...

University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham discusses his work unearthing several young T. rex fossils in the Hell Creek rocks...

Drawing from her poignant new memoir – one of 10 nonfiction works on the longlist for a 2018 National Book Award – Sarah Smarsh discu...

In a discussion of her new book Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century, Rutgers Uni...

The Veterans Writing Workshop opens with a public presentation featuring Iraq War veteran, author, and poet Brian Turner...

Jamie Bernstein, the eldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein, and David Charles Abell, who is conducti...

Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...

In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...