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As a precursor to Global Entrepreneurship Week, Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation wi...

Renowned stage and screen actor Hal Holbrook visits the Kansas City Public Library on Wednesday, November 9, 2011...

A lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirdaa presents an insider’s account of...

Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...

Veteran journalist James McCommons discusses his new book that is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigati...

Isaac Getz – a professor at the highly touted ESCP Europe international business school – discusses his new book Freedom,...

Author James B. Stewart examines America’s perjury epidemic through the cases of Martha Stewart, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Barry Bond...

In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland. The ghetto’s chosen leader, Mordechai Chaim Rumk...

Dr. James H. Willbanks discusses the events that led to the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday, April 2...

Award-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel The Surrendered, a spellbinding story of how love and war...