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What, exactly, is presidential leadership? What is the current state of executive power in the U.S.? What lingering effects will the current financial...

Art, Language & Play features original artwork by Stephen T. Johnson, an author and illustrator of children’s books...

Husband and wife team Monroe and Jean Dodd take a time-traveling journey across the Sunflower State with their new b...

Kristen Iversen, author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, examines the colorful life of the famed “unsinkable” Molly Brow...

You’re never too old to begin a literary career. At the age of 75 retired pastor Cy Robinson began writing his first novel. Not just...

Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...

Irish writer Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz is the followup to her international bestseller The Gathering, winn...

Kansas City author Linda Rodriguez discusses her debut novel Every Last Secret, a murder mystery in which b...

 Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III hosts a conversation about humanities studies and the future of America's...

In April 1862 a Union force under Ulysses S. Grant and a Confederate army led by Albert Sidney Johnston clashed in southwestern Tennessee in the Ba...