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If you’re not familiar with the theory of disruptive innovation, you’ve seen it at work: the advent of the personal computer, the rise of Netflix,...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...

The Library kicks off its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and launches more than six months of special programming surr...

On their first date, a canoe outing in southern Africa, where they both lived, Alexandra Fuller and husband-to-be Charlie Ross wer...

Kansas City's Shane W. Evans, who has earned national acclaim as the illustrator of more than 30 children's books, joins actress,...

Everyone has a reader in their life, even if that reader is you. In a first-of-its-kind event the Kansas City Public Library’s Director of Re...

The stories seem more prevalent and disturbing today than ever: kids being pushed in one or more sports to the point of burnout before high school,...

World chess champion-turned-human rights activist Garry Kasparov sounded his first warning about Vladimir Putin in 2001. He now c...

Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a...

Many, if not most, Americans’ understanding of Gen. George Armstrong Custer begins and ends with his demise at Little Bighorn. But that belies the com...