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Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in such a fashion that his first novel simultaneously addressed two divergent audiences: the yo...

Frank B. Converse is considered by many to be the first great virtuoso of “America’s instrument” the five-string banjo. Join...

The Plaza Branch concludes its annual Kansas City Architectures series, which in recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War focused on an...

The Plaza Branch continues its annual Kansas City Architecture series, focusing this year on antebellum homes in recognition of the sesquicentennia...

Chamber music ensemble Summerfest explores Lester Trimble’s setting of the great English masterwork “Four Fr...

Emory University historian Deborah E. Lipstadt examines the May 1960 capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli ag...

The Kansas City Public Library celebrates the 40th birthday of Ziggy with an appearance by Tom Wilson, who...

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The Plaza Branch continues its annual Kansas City Architecture series, focusing this year on antebellum homes in recognition of th...

Author Larry Bennett tackles some of our commonly held ideas about the “Windy City” with the goal of better understanding modern-day...