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Make the Central Library your family-friendly First Friday launch point, taking in a new gallery exhibit and enjoying some Old West reading and roping...

Kansas City native “Cowboy Mike” Grauer, associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of art and Western heritage at the Pan...

Amy Sherald has seen her art evolve from autobiographical to more socially relevant, “exploring identity and the roles of race and ge...

In a discussion of his book U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967, historian Sean Kalic...

Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

Author Ed Darack examines the downing of an Army helicopter in Afghanistan six years ago, killing all 38 aboard, in a discussion of h...

Sabermetrics savant Bill James applies his research and analytical skills to true-crime solving, making a convincing case that a more...

A panel of international military officers, currently studying at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, discusses their...

Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...