While perceived as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere in the decades following the Civil War – including Kansas and t...

Local author and LEGO enthusiast Jonathan Bender headlines a public event marking the launch of the Library's new KC Kids Cre...

August Bondi remains a compelling figure in Kansas history, a Jewish immigrant from Austria who fought alongside anti-slavery crusader John Brown a...

The Library kicks off its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and launches more than six months of special programming surr...

On their first date, a canoe outing in southern Africa, where they both lived, Alexandra Fuller and husband-to-be Charlie Ross wer...

Kansas City's Shane W. Evans, who has earned national acclaim as the illustrator of more than 30 children's books, joins actress,...

Everyone has a reader in their life, even if that reader is you. In a first-of-its-kind event the Kansas City Public Library’s Director of Re...

As Jen Mann notes, her nationally popular blog is called "People I Want to Punch in the Throat" and not "Rainbows and Unicorns." So i...

Kansas-reared Robert Day, author of the modern western classic The Last Cattle Drive, sits down with Library Director...

The stories seem more prevalent and disturbing today than ever: kids being pushed in one or more sports to the point of burnout before high school,...