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Barry’s 1939 comedy—about a ditzy socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a newspaper...

Author John Brewer discusses his new book The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money on...

Bruce Katz, director of Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab, discusses his book The New Localism: How Cities Can...

Agatha Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan discusses her latest mystery, The Wrong Girl, about an i...

Was John Wilkes Booth truly the mastermind behind the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the plot to murder other members of his admini...

Sample some of the world’s faraway places in the latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with deme...

The Piano Lesson endures as one of August Wilson’s most eloquent and powerful plays, an account of a Depression-era black fa...

Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...

Strike up the band! The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, thei...