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In Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery, editor and historian Sydney Norton presents a series...

Babette’s Feast features an eye-opening French banquet in a remote 19th-century Danish village. Psychiatrist John Whipple and film critic Abby Olcese...

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...

Historian Donna Rae Pearson examines the lingering impacts of redlining and urban renewal and how each promoted residential segregation in communities...

In Big Night, two Italian immigrant brothers struggle to keep their restaurant open in 1950s New Jersey. Psychiatrist Manuel Morales and filmmaker and...

Author and historian Dr. Frances Levine discusses the trailblazing women who traversed the Santa Fe Trail between 1760 and the late 1870s. While many...

The Civil War killed more servicemembers than both world wars and the Vietnam War combined – about 620,000 people. Though numbers that large tend to s...

Journalist S.H. “SKIZ” Fernando tells the story of hip-hop legend Daniel Dumile Jr. – aka masked supervillain MF DOOM – in a new biography set against...

In honor of Women’s History Month, SALT, a team of five artist educators, presents A Mosaic of Mothers, micro-operas that amplify Midwestern women’s e...

Clay Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, speaks to the divisiveness of our contemporary moment. A...