Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the Hous...

Inger Burnett-Zeigler counts herself among the many today who wear the badge of strong Black woman with honor. All too often, the estee...

The COVID-19 pandemic uncovered a simple truth about our buying habits: We’re capable of reining in our vanity and impulse shopping, our compulsion...

In an online KC Library program, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her new book On Juneteent...

Former Kansas City Star writer and editor Steve Paul joins Kaite Stover, the Library’s director of readers’...

Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits.  How far is Kansas City from...

There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society...

These rancorous political times arouse a certain wistfulness for a president who sought a “kinder and gentler nation.”  George H. W....

It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...

The sweeping story of the private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman is a window into the rise of American capitalism and our country’s subseq...