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Which Kansas City school is best for your child? At the annual City School Fair, families can learn about more about 50 public, priva...

Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph J. Ellis and the Library’s Steve Woolfolk discuss his newest book, The Cause...

Have we been too hard on George W. Bush?  Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian...

Author Mallory O’Meara joins the Library’s Kaite Stover in a discussion of O’Meara’s new book Girly Drin...

The lower Missouri River was a veritable steamboat graveyard in the 19th century as more than 300 vessels ended up at the bottom of the Big Muddy....

What none of us want to so much as think about, Ivan Maisel and his family endured six years ago. Not long after his 21st birthday, w...

While accounts of Jewish resistance during World War II tend to focus on armed uprisings in ghettos and guerilla warfare and sabotage in the forest...

Writers for Readers, annually one of Kansas City’s premier literary events, returns vitrually with a special lineup featuring celebrated author P...

Drawing from her bestselling book The Sum of Us, strategist and political commentator Heather McGhee examin...

Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book...