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Critically acclaimed and award-winning choreographer Jessica Lang presents the first of three programs brought to the Library by...

Artist Glenn Goldberg and art historian Elisabeth Kirsch will discuss the exhibit Lester Goldman: Flight...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts poet Heid Erdrich for a talk and reading from her latest poetry collection Nati...

On Wednesday, September 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St....

The Lewis & Clark Expedition paused at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers for three days on its way west in 1804 – longer than...

Author Tracy Daugherty discusses Hiding Man, his new biography of Donald Barthelme, on Thursday...

David Vine, an assistant professor of anthropology at American University, presents his book Island of Shame: The Se...

Thomas Frank, the author of the bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas?, presents the revised paperback edition of hi...

Among its most noteworthy achievements, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) conducted more than 2,000 interviews with former slaves in 17 states f...

Historian Jerrold Hirsch leads a presentation called Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Proj...