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KC History
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Monday, March 10, 2025
What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
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Friday, February 28, 2025
What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
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Friday, February 28, 2025
Each March, the Library observes Women’s History Month with a variety of activities, including films, speakers, spoken word, and a suggested reading l...
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Friday, February 21, 2025
What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
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Monday, February 17, 2025
On February 22, 1901, future Supreme Court justice Charles Evans Whittaker was born near Troy, Kansas....
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Friday, February 14, 2025
In 2010, the Kansas City Public Library, Black Archives of Mid-America, and Local Investment Commission (LINC) started the Kansas City Black History P...
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Monday, February 10, 2025
On February 9, 1920, the City Council approved ambitious plans for the construction of Liberty Memorial south of Union Station....
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
The Missouri Valley Special Collections staff will guide patrons through the art of house history research and introduce digital tools....
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Monday, January 27, 2025
On January 31, 1901, the Coates Opera House, Kansas City’s original first-class theater, met a fate common among nineteenth-century theaters when it b...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
In December, The Kansas City Star launched Reel Rare, a five-part series exploring early 20th-century Kansas City home movies and the stories they rev...