Search the Library

In 1911 art-minded Missourians hired the nation’s leading artists to decorate the new Missouri statehouse, and the works they created were consider...

Actor and author John Lithgow offers an entertaining afternoon of insight, anecdotes, and readings. Lithgow, a Tony and Emmy award...

An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City are denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life because they cannot read.To ce...

Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in...

Why doesn’t practice make perfect? Why are the same mistakes replayed in every presidential election? Political scientist Samuel Popkin...

Former Kansas City Star film critic Robert Butler, now a member of the Library’s public affairs department, offers openin...

The 1940 U.S. Census revealed that Missouri had 3.8 million residents, there were 1.8 million Kansans, and Kansas City, Missouri, was home to 400,0...

Cornell University historian Fredrik Logevall discusses the origins of America’s least popular war, beginning with the 1919 Versai...

Officials at the University of Missouri-Kansas City recently announced their intention to relocate many of their fine arts efforts to downtown. Planne...

Seemingly austere and reportedly passive in the face of a national economic calamity, Herbert Hoover is somewhat of a political orphan. But biograp...