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Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedly r...

The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a sma...

2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...

This event was originally scheduled for January but was rescheduled due to inclement weather in the Washington D.C. area...

Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the...

In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878, wh...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out to...

Which areas offer Kansas City the greatest potential for smart long-term growth? Urban planner Joe Minicozzi and Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofi...

Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat...

The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...