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Reporter/pundit Eleanor Clift joins Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III for a public conversation...

No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Alan Brinkley arg...

As a member of the Black Panther Party, Jamal Joseph advocated burning Columbia University to the ground. Forty years later he&rsq...

Actor and author John Lithgow offers an entertaining afternoon of insight, anecdotes, and readings. Lithgow, a Tony and Emmy award...

An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City are denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life because they cannot read.To ce...

Former Kansas City Star film critic Robert Butler, now a member of the Library’s public affairs department, offers openin...

Seemingly austere and reportedly passive in the face of a national economic calamity, Herbert Hoover is somewhat of a political orphan. But biograp...

Learn about all the requirements for becoming a poll worker. Participants will learn about the various poll worker categories: judges, voter assist...

Classic American labor posters were created with the dual purpose of entertaining and informing. Now, just in time for Labor Day, Lin...

Margot McMillen, author of The Golden Lane, explores how a protest by thousands of women at the 1916 Democratic National Con...