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Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare rose to prominence centuries and continents apart. But one of America’s greatest presidents felt a real con...

They are the most famous and controversial directors in the history of the CIA – Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey – and t...

Kansas City’s Barkley advertising agency hatched the enormously successful “Two Guys” campaign for Sonic Drive-In a little more than 12 years ago, let...

While perceived as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere in the decades following the Civil War – including Kansas and t...

Local author and LEGO enthusiast Jonathan Bender headlines a public event marking the launch of the Library's new KC Kids Cre...

August Bondi remains a compelling figure in Kansas history, a Jewish immigrant from Austria who fought alongside anti-slavery crusader John Brown a...

If you’re not familiar with the theory of disruptive innovation, you’ve seen it at work: the advent of the personal computer, the rise of Netflix, and...

Was the December 29, 1890, massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an act of war? U.S. government officials deemed it such. Or was the killing of s...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the inci...