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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...

For more than 60 years, the name Ollie Gates has been synonymous with Kansas City-style barbeque, sauces, and their trademark greetin...

Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by a...