Press Releases
- Thu, April 30, 2015 Sociologist Mariah Evans Discusses the Correlation Between Books in the Home (Even a Few) and a Long-Term Appetite for Education
- Tue, April 28, 2015 Season of Script-in-Hand Performances Concludes with a Mother's Day Confection, The Light in the Piazza
- Tue, April 28, 2015 Sarah Chayes, a Former Advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Draws the Line from State-Sponsored Corruption to Global Turmoil
- Thu, April 23, 2015 A Man, a Canoe, the Missouri River: Patrick Dobson Recounts A Transformative Journey Home from Montana to KC
- Thu, April 23, 2015 From World War II to the Oval Office: KU's Theodore A. Wilson Examines The Impact of Wartime Service (and Now a Lack of It) on the Presidency
- Wed, April 22, 2015 Library Observes 100th Anniversary of a Film Genius' Birth, Screening a Selection of Orson Welles' Movies in May
- Mon, April 20, 2015 Stanford's Eric Hanushek Quantifies the Value of Effective Teachers And Urges: Reward Them Accordingly
- Wed, April 15, 2015 From California to Johnson County and Beyond: Mary van Balgooy Discusses a Uniquely American Architectural Phenomenon, the Ranch House
- Wed, April 15, 2015 Writer Joshua Wolf Shenk, Best-Selling Kansas Author Robert Day Discuss the Powers of Two - Boosting Creativity By Collaboration
- Mon, April 13, 2015 KC-Born Author LaShonda Katrice Barnett Discusses Her Lauded Debut Novel, the History-Based Jam on the Vine
- Fri, April 10, 2015 Historian Lewis L. Gould Spotlights Groundbreaking First Lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt
- Tue, April 7, 2015 KC FilmFest Screens a Family Film Classic, Field of Dreams, at Plaza Branch
- Tue, April 7, 2015 Collector Nancy Jo Leachman Looks at Kansas History as Writ on Cotton Flour Sacks
- Tue, April 7, 2015 With $100,000 Grant, Library to Launch Financial Literacy Program Targeting Three Kansas City Neighborhoods
- Fri, April 3, 2015 Author Jennifer Teege Discusses the Awful Reality of Her Nazi Heritage: My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
- Fri, April 3, 2015 National Review's Richard Brookhiser Examines the Men Who Made Lincoln: Founding Fathers Washington, Jefferson, Paine
- Wed, April 1, 2015 Vietnam War Authority James H. Willbanks Re-examines Saigon's Fall 40 Years Ago This Month
- Wed, April 1, 2015 Rep. Emanuel Cleaver to Salute District's High School Artists; One Student's Work Will Go to Nation's Capitol
- Tue, March 31, 2015 Library Screens New Documentary Hot Type, A Look Inside the 150-Year-Old The Nation
- Mon, March 30, 2015 Educator, Digital Library Pioneer John Palfrey Discusses Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google