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One of the staples of Kansas City’s Westside community, the Irene H. Ruiz Branch of the Kansas City Public Library c...

Biographer James Grant discusses his new portrait of late nineteenth-century Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives...

In his New York Times best-selling book, Frank Schaeffer uses his life as a lens through which to view a larger narrative...

On the evening of May 20, 1957, an F-5 tornado tore into the communities of Ottawa and Spring Hill, Kansas, and Martin City, Grandview, Hickman Mil...

Columnist and political commentator John Avlon discusses his new book Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Colu...

The third annual Power of Reading celebration features Kansas City authors and new adult readers sharing inspired stories about th...

Public art and its accompanying community participation contribute significantly to the identity of a city. In addition to inspiring dialogue and pro...

Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in such a fashion that his first novel simultaneously addressed two divergent audiences: the yo...

Already an established artist of worldwide fame, Missouri artist Thomas Hart Benton was a natural choice for the Limited Editions Club’s illustrate...

Esther Schor discusses her book about the life of Emma Lazarus, the iconoclastic 19th century poet and activist whos...