In an online KC Library program, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her new book On Juneteent...

Former Kansas City Star writer and editor Steve Paul joins Kaite Stover, the Library’s director of readers’...

Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits.  How far is Kansas City from...

There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society...

These rancorous political times arouse a certain wistfulness for a president who sought a “kinder and gentler nation.”  George H. W....

It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...

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...

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...

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...

Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life.  Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1...