Celebrate Lucile Bluford Day starting at 1 p.m. with arts and crafts, storytimes, and book giveaways. The reception features refreshments, a photo boo...

In a June 18 edition of KMBC 9 Chronicle, Emmy-nominated anchor Jamie Weiss explored the history of Kansas City barbecue. Weiss moderates a conversati...

The story of the early struggle for LGBTQ+ rights has typically been told from the perspective of coastal cities like New York and San Francisco. Auth...

In honor of Juneteenth, local historian Erik Stafford explores how African Americans in Kansas City pursued freedom, from escaping their enslavers thr...

The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College returns to the Library to launch a new series on the rise and fall of empires. Harry S. Laver reco...

National Trust for Historic Preservation President Carol Quillen discusses the importance of storytelling – rooted in historic places – to a healthy d...

More than 50 years after the death of the Man from Missouri, historian John Robert Greene reevaluates a major – and ultimately sca...

From its inception, Kansas City has been intricately tied to provisioning, hospitality, and good food. Culinary historian Andrea Broomfield examines h...

In his new book Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century, historian Fred E. Woods details the Mormon journey to and throu...