Recaptured Africans

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Sharla M. Fett
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny

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Michael Wallis
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Hamlet: From the Page to the Stage

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Ian Wooldridge
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Lincoln: Wrestling with His Angel, 1849-1856

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Sidney Blumenthal
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Peace through Entrepreneurship

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Steven Koltai
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Advice to Young (and Old) Education Reformers

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Frederick M. “Rick” Hess
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Everybody Gets Stinky Feet

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Jim Cosgrove
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Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
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Homegoing

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Yaa Gyasi
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A New Way: Embracing the Paradox as We Lead and Serve

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Matthew Dowd, Allan Katz
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Kansas City Beer: A History of Brewing in the Heartland

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Pete Dulin
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What Makes a Poem Work?

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Hadara Bar-Nadav, Kathryn Nuernberger, Angela Elam
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Ike and McCarthy

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David A. Nichols
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Navigating a Life: Henry Bloch in World War II

Henry Bloch
Henry W. Bloch, John Herron
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A Conversation with Michelle Boisseau

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Michelle Boisseau, Angela Elam
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

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Tom Clavin
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An Evening With Francine Prose

Francine Prose
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Sound Off: The Kansas City Star's New Editorial Board

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Colleen McCain Nelson, Derek Donovan, Dave Helling, Melinda Henneberger, Steve Kraske, Lee Judge, Mary Sanchez
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Working Together: KC History Through the Kansas City Athenaeum

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Joyce Merrill
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‘To Make a Poet Black, and Bid Him Sing’

Glenn North
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White Rage

Carol Anderson
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The Mothers

Brit Bennett
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Dust Bowl Girls

Lydia Reeder
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Theater of War

Matt Gallagher, Whitney Terrell
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