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Books & Authors
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In an online KC Library program, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her new book On Juneteent...
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Former Kansas City Star writer and editor Steve Paul joins Kaite Stover, the Library’s director of readers’...
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Online
Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits.
How far is Kansas City from...
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These rancorous political times arouse a certain wistfulness for a president who sought a “kinder and gentler nation.”
George H. W....
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It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...
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The sweeping story of the private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman is a window into the rise of American capitalism and our country’s subseq...
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Online
There are more than 90,000 people on the kidney transplant list in the United States. Every day, 13 of them die waiting for a call. We need more li...
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In a special online presentation marking the wider reopening of the Kansas City Public Library’s physical spaces and services on June 1, renowned auth...
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Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life.
Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1...
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Today’s hyper-political sensitivity to U.S. Supreme Court appointments traces back to the only president elected from Missouri. Harry Truman revolu...