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Judy Schachner doodled on just about everything while growing up in New England, including her father’s bald head. Now, as The New...

The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....

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...

An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City function at the lowest literacy level, denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life be...

You’re scheduled to give a business presentation, pitch investors, or deliver a wedding toast. And you’re petrified. You’re simply not cut out for...

Beyond fathering a nation, founding a great university, and leaving a legacy as an architect and inventor, Thomas Jefferson was a forefather of mod...

Award-winning chefs Colby and Megan Garrelts discuss some of the 50 handcrafted recipes included in their new boo...

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...