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The Kansas City Public Library welcomes music historian Karl Hinterbichler for a presentation tracing a musical tradition that c...

On the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday, the Library welcomes Dr. Wes Jackson for a discussion titled Lincoln an...

Best-selling author Tom Clavin discusses his new book, The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines i...

The Kansas City Public Library and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources present a series of five programs in March that...

The Kansas City Public Library offers a musical retrospective of the works of celebrated Czech composer Rudolf Friml during a pr...

The Historic Kansas City Foundation and Dr. Bill Worley host a walking tour of downtown Kansas City on W...

From its start in 1857, the Quindaro township—in present-day Wyandotte County—was an unabashedly free-state community surrounded by...

Author and historian Lynne Olson discusses her new book Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to P...

In 1838, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issued the "Order of Extermination" that ordered the killing or removal of Mormons residing in Missouri&...

Author and historian David O. Stewart discusses his new book Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johns...