All Library locations will be closing early Wednesday, November 26 at 5 p.m. and will reopen Saturday, November 29.
KC History
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Friday, November 14, 2025
The Library takes a look back at KU-MU football games that began in the 1890s, which were played on Thanksgiving Day....
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Friday, November 7, 2025
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 abo...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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 abo...
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Friday, October 17, 2025
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 explore...
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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 abo...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
There's an open call for stories about Kansas City social movements from the mid- to late-20th century....
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Sunday, July 27, 2025
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 region...
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Friday, July 18, 2025
Throughout July, sparked by Independence Day celebrations, the Library considers what it means to have creative freedom....
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
The Rosin Preservation Collection documents the firm's projects from 1998 to 2018. Thanks to their efforts, hundreds of buildings and historic sites w...
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Friday, July 11, 2025
The Library will house 'The CALL''s more than 70,000 photographs and mixed files containing research material, clippings, and ephemera....