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Two metro-area landmarks, the stainless steel-spired Temple and the domed Auditorium, accentuate the world headquarters of the Community of Christ...

Defying dire predictions that they would not survive the turn of the millennium, public libraries continue to thrive. Two out of three Americans vi...

The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a...

Few literary works are more quoted, translated, and adapted than Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year marks the sesqui...

Historians have long pointed to the devastation of smallpox and other European-introduced diseases in tracing the demise of North America’s indigen...

Whitney Terrell’s novel, The King of Kings County, remains a landmark examination of white flight and th...

Jessica Neuwirth, founder of the women’s rights organization Equality Now, discusses her new book Equal Means Equal: W...

Author Cynthia Bond is joined by the Library’s Director of Readers’ Services Kaite Stover for a discussion of Bon...

Journalist and local historian Cindy Higgins presents an illustrated talk about the brewers and breweries of early Kansas, their role in fostering a s...

Former Library of Congress Chief Executive Officer Donald Scott discusses his new memoir Recipient of Grace...