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Columbus Junction, Iowa, doesn’t fit the Midwest small-town stereotype. As large agricultural operations and meat processing plants have become promin...

The Library continues its examination of immigration, exploring the tension between America’s historical acceptance of newcomers and periodic backlash...

Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...

Pulitzer Prize recipient Tyehimba Jess “is inventive, prophetic, wondrous,” says fellow award-winning poet Nikky Finney. Jess highlig...

Kansas City artist Ben Wills details his outreach to prisoners and how it has affected his approach to his work. The presentation coi...

University of Virginia historian William I. Hitchcock takes stock of Dwight Eisenhower’s far-reaching legacy as president in a discus...

Thomas E. Ward of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College traces the history and impact of a weapon that occupies a special p...

Immigration is a central component of the American narrative. The Library launches a six-week series of film screenings and discussions exploring i...

Authors Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein sit down with former Kansas City council member Jan Marcason...

Jenny Mendez, director of cultural arts of the Mattie Rhodes Center, joins Kansas City-based artist and facilitator Olivia Cl...