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National Trust for Historic Preservation President Carol Quillen discusses the importance of storytelling – rooted in historic places – to a healthy d...

Bestselling co-authors Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness and Kansas City’s own Julie Murphy discuss their new book, Let Them Stare, a story about a haunte...

New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera discusses his latest young adult novel, The Survivor Wants to Die at the End, in conversation with Kans...

Composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach’s circle of friends and family included some of the most influential voices of the German Baroque era. Kan...

More than 50 years after the death of the Man from Missouri, historian John Robert Greene reevaluates a major – and ultimately sca...

Mandy Chapman Semple was responsible for designing and co-managing the implementation of Houston’s nationally recognized efforts to address homelessne...

From its inception, Kansas City has been intricately tied to provisioning, hospitality, and good food. Culinary historian Andrea Broomfield examines h...

Writer and director David Wayne Reed revives Shelf Life, his popular show-and-tell storytelling series, for Big Read 2025. The event – focusing on som...

In his new book Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century, historian Fred E. Woods details the Mormon journey to and throu...

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