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Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Tom Pendergast, portrayed by Bill Wor...

Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Langston Hughes, portrayed by Charles Ev...

Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Amelia Earhart, portrayed by Ann Birney...

Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by veteran Chautauqua p...

To commemorate the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth, historian Michael Schaller chronicles the life of one of America’s most notable and successful...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with President Woodrow Wilson, as portrayed by...

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Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught...

With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...

There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the...