Search the Library

When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the count...

The slave Dred Scott claimed that his residence in a free state transformed him into a free man. When the Court decided otherwise,...

Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boar...

When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...

Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...

Competition between Kansas and Missouri goes back to the years before the Civil War, when Jayhawkers and “border ruffians” battled over the issue of s...

Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which affirmed a woman’...

The Writers at Work series returns for the 2008-09 season with A Conversation with Ethan Canin hosted by Kans...

Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, wit...

Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...