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Kansas City’s ad-industry history runs deep, featuring a host of agencies representing major brands including Guy’s Potato Chips and the McDonald’s Ha...

Bestselling author and former Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski discusses his new book about the most remarkable r...

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...

Travel the world without leaving Kansas City. Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce CEO and President Bobbi Baker discus...

Author Pete Dulin is joined by the Library’s director of programming and marketing Steven Woolfolk, and represent...

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

Historian Adrian Burgos Jr. and Raymond Doswell of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum discuss the early struggles and now-growing impact of Latinos on...

History books cast William Clark as a wilderness-braving, 1800s action hero, a partner with Meriwether Lewis in the nearly two-and-a-half-year expl...

Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedl...