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The Library’s historical website The Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age & Great Depress...

Kansas City voters go to the polls on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, to vote on several races and issues. Among the h...

In the Kansas City region, the name "Quantrill" is largely associated with...

LGBT Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in t...

Missouri Valley Special Collections is pleased to announce an update and large addition to one of the first digital history collections made availa...

No shushing at the Kansas City Public Library. Not during Super Bowl week. The Library is adding its own imaginative twist to the run-up to Sunday and...

This week’s “What’s your KCQ?” involves something big and bright that hovered above us for many years. Reader Lewis Jones asked KCQ — a par...

This week’s “What’s your KCQ?” involves something big and bright that hovered above us for many years. Reader Lewis Jones asked KCQ — a par...

John Johnson has the dubious distinction of serving the shortest term in office – 35 days – of any Kansas City mayor. Vanessa Vaughn West reached out...

A resource implemented earlier this year by the  Library on its computers is temporarily available for you to use at home for free. NewsG...