In recognition of Preservation Week (April 24–30, 2011), the Library offers a series of presentations aimed at helping community members save and stor...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with George Caleb Bingham, whose paintings of Missouri and the American frontier have...

During the 2003 looting of Iraq’s National Museum some 15,000 priceless objects dating back to ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia were damaged or stol...

Film critic Shawn Edwards is joined by radio personality Jabulani Leffall for a discussion of the global impact of b...

The classic children’s novel Robinson Crusoe bears little resemblance to the novel authored by Daniel DeFoe in 1719. Dec...

The Midwest Democracy Project hosts a forum exploring the question: What is the 21st century mission of our public schools? Parti...

On Thursday, September 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St....

Local children’s advocates SuEllen Fried and Blanche Sosland present a strategy to reduce the pain, rage, and re...

To commemorate the launch of ShhGirl! Magazine, an online networking magaz...

Filmmaker Gary Jenkins presents Negroes To Hire, a documentary on slavery in Missouri based on American...