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The First Amendment facilitated such essential American reforms as ending slavery and extending voting rights to women. Former USA TODAY edit...

Retired Canadian Army Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire discusses his attempt to end the coerced recruitment and use of children as soldiers, a...

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In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...

Celebrate your favorite books, movies, comics, and all things geeky at the first-ever Plaza PopCon - a free, family-friendly after...

Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...

As Kansas City’s 2018 Art in the Loop Project: KC Plays! prepares to open, a number of the participating artists, dancers, musicians,...

Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...

Join the Library at its recently renovated Southeast Branch for a day of community celebration. Visit our space and check out refreshed collect...

The Library kicks off a new series with The Kansas City Star to discuss the news and issues that matter to Kansas Citians. I...