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Kunio Watanabe and William R. Farrell –leaders in the fields of international business and U.S.-Japan relations – discuss the economic...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...

The word is: E-X-A-C-T-I-N-G. Many of the Kansas City area’s top young spellers – heck, top spellers of any age – face off in the annu...

The attention to so-called “black rage” during the 2014 rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, clouded what one historian says was the actual root of the unre...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out...

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

America in the 1950s was undergoing what the University of Missouri’s Steven Watts calls a “crisis of manhood,” denigrating Eisenh...

Even before her acclaimed debut novel, Brit Bennett had drawn attention for her forceful essays about racial injustice, police violen...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...

The Library screens a series of romantic shorts and clips as it resumes a special new, intergenerational movie series welcoming individuals with de...