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No other resident of Kansas City, past or present, has achieved the worldwide fame of Walt Disney. He created the animated Mickey Mouse and establi...

Kansas-reared Robert Day, author of the modern western classic The Last Cattle Drive, sits down with Library Director...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...

Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...

What is it like to be the son or daughter of an absolute and ruthless dictator? To bear a name – Stalin or Mussolini, Mao or Ceausescu, Qaddafi or...

As Jen Mann notes, her nationally popular blog is called "People I Want to Punch in the Throat" and not "Rainbows and Unicorns." So i...

College graduates last May held an unenviable distinction: They left school deeper in debt than any class before them. Those who’d taken out studen...

Was the December 29, 1890, massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an act of war? U.S. government officials deemed it such. Or was the killing of s...

August Bondi remains a compelling figure in Kansas history, a Jewish immigrant from Austria who fought alongside anti-slavery crusader John Brown a...