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French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...

What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

Maya Angelou Book Award winner Taylor Byas’ latest poetry collection, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, discovers parallels between her journey and...

Fox4 reporter Matt Stewart and former Kansas City Royals second baseman, Frank White, discuss forgotten and lesser-known stories of the Royals from St...

As part of the Library’s sesquicentennial celebration, decorated author Jacqueline Woodson joins in a public conversation about her life and career, t...

In a discussion of his new book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America, Louisiana Tech University historian Andrew C. McKe...

Marist College journalism professor Kevin Lerner discusses his new book, Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Cri...

Amid the United States’ protracted involvement in Vietnam, its military confronted racial justice demands more directly than perhaps any other institu...

Drawing from her book Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendme...

Valerie Lemmie, director of exploratory research for the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio, discusses today’s national and local t...