Local History

What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions about regional topics.

The Library's website now hosts The Kansas City Star's photo archives.

In 1951, local musician, amateur songwriter, and sound engineer, Roger C. Webb, composed a song titled "Plaza Lights."

The Library takes a look back at KU-MU football games that began in the 1890s, which were played on Thanksgiving Day.

What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions about regional topics.

What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions about regional topics.

Eight crew members and 37 passengers — many from the Kansas City metro area — died in one of the deadliest air crashes in U.S. history. A book explores how, for some residents and families who responded to the disaster, the impacts can be lasting.

What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions about regional topics.

There's an open call for stories about Kansas City social movements from the mid- to late-20th century.

What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to answer questions about regional topics.