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The Kansas City Public Library and The KC Kingpen Coalition present drug-kingpin - turned philanthropist and author - Freeway Rick Ross. He will disc...

On this date 99 years and 364 days ago, the Panama Canal opened and revolutionized maritime trade. It also threw the Panama Railroad and its parall...

At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...

The Midwest’s small towns have produced the entrepreneurial likes of Henry Ford, George Washington Carver, and Walt Disney; artists and entertainer...

The Kansas City Opera Institute is settling into a second season of classes, workshops, and productions designed to prepare and sh...

Several Kansas Citians including neighborhood residents Alvin Brooks, Karen Slaughter, Telester Powell, Joe Louis Mattox recently created digital stor...

Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictiona...

The Westport Historical Society and the Westport Branch Library present Michael Dickey - "Sweat and Survival: The Impact of the Santa...

Thrust into the nation’s highest office following Richard Nixon’s resignation, Gerald R. Ford faced the impossible task of achieving much in little...

The Library launches a series of programs commemorating the centennial of the start of World War I with military historian D.M. Giangreco’s look at 34...