What are the most surprising, engaging, and thought-provoking books of 2025? Kansas City metro area librarians share their favorite fiction and nonfic...

How did a bizarre online conspiracy movement become a global political force? Chris Conner, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Miss...

UMKC professor Bradley Poos discusses his new book about Kansas City’s Central High School, founded in 1867. He shares the stories of students, educat...

Lamonte McIntyre, Darryl Burton, and Patty Prewitt each spent decades in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. Judith Sabbert, retired president of th...

The 10th annual Writers for Readers fundraiser dinner features celebrated bestselling author Candice Millard and the announcement of this year's Maya...

Military professor Geoff Babb discusses the Qing Dynasty’s rise and fall, its military campaigns amid the “Century of Humiliation,” and the events tha...

Kansas author Laurie Dove discusses her debut book and the high rate of crime against members of Native communities. The novel follows Carrie Starr, w...

Development regulations often make housing, particularly starter homes, more expensive, if not impossible to build. Allison Thurmond Quinlan, an archi...

Historian Lorissa Rinehart discusses her new biography of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Rankin, a Re...

Experience a musical tribute to Paris inspired by the personal essays in A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light. Vocalis...