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Janssen Place, the first private street built in Kansas City in the 1890s, is still considered one of the city’s most beautiful developments. Kansas C...

Carmaletta Williams, CEO of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses the research of the Greater Kansas City Black Suffragist Committee, formed ne...

In a discussion drawing from his new book The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After, Lucas Hilderbrand of the U...

Art Lujin, a former manager of aircraft engineering during a nearly 26-year career with TWA and now a guide at Kansas City’s TWA Museum, recounts the...

Drawing from copious research and interviews with principal participants for his new book Mafia Dreams: A True Crime Saga of Young Men at the End of a...

In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays presentation, Suzanne Hogan, creator and producer of KCUR public radio’s A People’s History of Kansas City, dis...

Director Tim Burton’s second take on Michael Keaton’s Caped Crusader takes place in a wintry Gotham City, with The Penguin (Danny DeVito) attemptin...

The Library continues its Off the Wall series of rooftop film screenings, featuring cats in non-starring but invariably scene-chewing roles, with 1999...

In a discussion of his new book The Girl with the Agate Eyes: The Untold Story of Mattie Howard, Kansas City’s Queen of the Underworld...

The Library continues this summer’s Off the Wall series of rooftop film screenings, featuring cats in non-starring but invariably scene-chewing roles,...