KC History

What's Your KCQ is a collaboration between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library series that answers your questions about the history, people, places, and culture that make Kansas City unique.

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 has partnered with Urban Hikes KC on a series of guided tours. Now, there’s one focused on the Library District.

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.

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.

Each March, the Library observes Women’s History Month with a variety of activities, including films, speakers, spoken word, and a suggested reading list or two.

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.

On February 22, 1901, future Supreme Court justice Charles Evans Whittaker was born near Troy, Kansas.