Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years

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Joseph C. Ewoodzie
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Strife in the Streets: Kansas City Remembers 1968

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Emanuel Cleaver II, Sly James, Alvin Brooks, Clarence Gibson, Linda Spence, Joel P. Rhodes, Nick Haines
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The Smart Math of Urban Development

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Joe Minicozzi
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Freedom, Inc. and Black Political Empowerment

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Micah W. Kubic
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Breast Cancer in Missouri: Finding a Cure

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Kala Visvanathan
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Truman and the Pendergast Political Machine

Truman and Pendergast
Jon Taylor
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Headlights on the Prairie

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Robert Rebein
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Head 'Em Up and Move 'Em Out

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Jim Gray
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Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders
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The British ‘Beef Bonanza’

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Michael Grauer
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Race and Meaning: The African-American Experience in Missouri

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Gary Kremer
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Cybersecurity: The World on Alert

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Katherine Charlet
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Murder and Mayhem: Tales of Two Cities

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Amy Von Lintel
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Tet 1968: The Victory That Wasn’t

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Wilburn “Bud” Meador
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Strong Towns: The Profit, and Losses, of Growth

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Chuck Marohn
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Hitler's First Victims

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Beth Griech-Polelle
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Evicted in Kansas City

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Tara Raghuveer, Nick Haines
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Picking Perennials: What’s New, What’s Best for Landscape Durability and Sustainability

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Bill Malouche
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The Casablanca Conference, 1943: Pursuing Unconditional Surrender

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Gates M. Brown
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Together As One: Legacy of James Shipley, World War II Tuskegee Airman

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Jeremy Paul Amick, James Shipley
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century

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Robert W. Merry
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Mob Files: Investigating the Kansas City Mafia

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William Ouseley, Jonathan Bender
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A Conversation with John Freeman

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s two latest releases, the anthology Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, and his first collection of poetry, Maps.
A Conversation with John Freeman
John Freeman, Whitney Terrell
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Closing Chapter: End of the War in Vietnam

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David F. Lambertson
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