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Alice Randall, seen widely as one of the most significant voices in contemporary African American fiction, was born in Detroit and can attes...

The Kansas City Symphony continues its series of free outdoor chamber concerts at the Library, with a string quintet – violins, viola, cello, and b...

Science has always been interwoven in our daily lives but perhaps never as noticeably – and for some, uncomfortably – as it is amid our struggles n...

The model for fairly selecting judges across much of our country is known as the Missouri Plan, born some 80 years ago in response to the political...

The Library’s long, popular partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth resumes with the first in a new serie...

From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter. From The Great Gatsby to The Giving Tree. For a...

The Kansas City Symphony continues its series of free outdoor chamber concerts at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bas...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pop culture icon – “the Notorious RBG” – by the end of her life. Upon her death last week, at age 87, she inevitably beca...

For more than a century – until 1999 – an old Louisiana sugar plantation beside the Mississippi River held a painful secret. Locals knew it as Carv...

William Faulkner once famously noted, “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” If not explicitly, he was referring most pointedly to an...