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From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles. In this they were just like the fic...

Kansas City-area journalist Christopher Leonard returns to the Library to discuss his new book The Lords of Easy Money...

On Wednesday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.,...

The Kansas City Public Library presents a look at the Legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers on Sunday, February...

During the 2003 looting of Iraq’s National Museum some 15,000 priceless objects dating back to ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia were damaged or stol...

Jonathan Abel of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College sets the record straight on one of the more inspiring – but somewhat mythicized – cha...

As underscored by The Huffington Post six months ago, when it named Kansas City one of America’s “coolest” cities, things are looking brig...

The campaigning is over. The polls have closed. The voters have retreated to their living rooms to catch the results on television. But for election...

In 1911 art-minded Missourians hired the nation’s leading artists to decorate the new Missouri statehouse, and the works they created were consider...

Twenty years ago James B. Steele co-authored America: What Went Wrong, which argued that the middle class was shrinking,...