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What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back on the 1957 space shot heard ’round the world: the Soviet...

French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...

As part of the Making a Great City series, Jenny Schuetz, Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, discusses her latest book Fixer-Upper: How to Repair Ameri...

The 2013 Kansas City Architecture Series examines how historic buildings in Kansas City’s downtown area have been repurposed and g...

The women architects who helped shape Kansas City neighborhoods and beyond are the subject of the second season of They Built Kansas City...

The women architects who helped shape Kansas City neighborhoods and beyond are the subject of the second season of They Built Kansas City...

The women architects who helped shape Kansas City neighborhoods and beyond are the subject of the second season of They Built Kansas City...

Local author, educator, and historian William Worley discusses the New York Life Insurance Building (20 W. 9th St.). Regarded as K...

Jon Knight, who oversees design senior principal at Populous, describes the changes being made to the Board of Trade Building (4800 M...