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It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cu...

The Library launches a series of programs commemorating the centennial of the start of World War I with military historian D.M. Giangreco’s look at 34...

Former State Department and CIA intelligence analyst Mark Stout discusses the birth of modern American espionage during World War I, from aerial recon...

Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...

Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl...

Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a...

Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. The Library’s 2016 Off-the-Wall film series kicks...

Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. Romeo & Juliet’s timeless tale of star-cross’d lovers adds an undead element in...

Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. The Bard goes to boarding school in She’s the Man (PG-13, 75 min.,...

Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm. In 10 Things I Hate About You (PG-13, 97 min., 1999), a retake of...