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The tragedy of December 14, 2012 – 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members dying at the hands of a 20-year-old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut ¬...

This is where technology has taken us: U.S. service members plotting and executing drone strikes half a world away, killing not only a faceless enemy...

The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families, screening the effervesce...

Alex Sutton, a veteran of three combat tours in Iraq, has been done with war for nearly a decade. But his fight is far from over. Dealing with po...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R...

For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S...

For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra...

Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...

A 17-year-old African American is found hanging from a swing set in the middle of an all-white trailer park in North Carolina. Police quickly de...

The Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the acclaimed 2016 documentary spotlighting the famed essayist, novelist, poet, and champion of agr...