The Missouri Valley Room at the Central Library is home to more than 200 special collections of archival materials documenting the history and develop...

Two hundred years ago, on August 10, 1821, Missouri officially became the 24th state. From this year’s Homegrown Stories Summer Reading Prog...

Henry Perry, the man who first assumed the title of Barbecue King of Kansas City, was born on March 16, 1874, in Shelby County, Tenne...

Each year, the Library partners with the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America to...

The Missouri Valley Room in the Central Library is now accepting appointments for visitors to conduct special collections research. L...

Each year, the Library partners with the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America to...

It’s fall, y’all, and the Library is kicking off the Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of haunted local history tales, scary story recom...

This week marks 43 years since Ralph Steadman visited a muggy Kansas City to cover the 1976 Republican National Convention for...