For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...

In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...

The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

Is True Grit’s Mattie Ross a genuine feminist hero or a merely a woman who mimics traditional masculinity? Panelists Brenda...

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For nearly 50 years Josephine Marcus Earp was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the legendary hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As an indep...

Renowned stage and screen actor Hal Holbrook visits the Kansas City Public Library on Wednesday, November 9, 2011...

The Big Read brings author Marilynne Robinson to Kansas City on Wednesday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the...

Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduces Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson...