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The Kansas City Public Library and the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre kick off the fifth season of the Script-in-Hand...

Kansas native John B. McLendon is remembered as an innovative basketball tactician and the last living protégé of James Naismith,...

Enjoy two nights of storytelling at the Plaza Branch. Friday night, Gary Kuntz, Melva Hargett, and Priscilla Howe will present stories...

Historian Donald Worster discusses John Wesley Powell’s 1869 journey down the Green and Colorado rivers and his trip through the...

Lewis Lapham, editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, examines the foundations of the world’s greatest cities, fr...

Pulitzer Prize-nominee David Eisenhower discusses his new book Going Home to Glory. When Presid...

The Revolution of 1910 was a landmark chapter in Mexican history. It ushered in a disruptive and often violent period that brought about the soci...

Since the publication of the best-selling Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog, Ted Kerasote has received thousa...

Learn about the Civil War Digitization Project...