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An Ordinary Wonder

Buki Papillon, winner of the 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award

April 12, 2023

U.S. Grant and the Battle of the Wilderness

Harry S. Laver

April 11, 2023

The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America

Shawn Rochester, Gwen Grant

March 30, 2023

Poetry, Stories, Giving Voice to Incarcerated People

Brian Daldorph, Barbara Stuber, Samantha Pettus

March 16, 2023

1979, the Year That Changed the Middle East

Brian L. Steed

March 7, 2023

Ukraine Today

John Herbst, Mark Wilcox

March 1, 2023

The Culture and Politics of Rap

Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar

February 19, 2023

The Challenge of Translating the Bible

Robert Alter

February 16, 2023

IDEAL Entrepreneurship

February 7, 2023

Hindsight, Insight: Four Former Mayors Appraise KC

Emanuel Cleaver, Kay Barnes, Mark Funkhouser, Sly James, Nick Haines

January 26, 2023

The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

Jeff Pearlman

January 24, 2023

Bread for My Enemies: Feeding Germany in the Wake of World War II

David W. Mills

January 10, 2023

The Education of Corporal John Musgrave: Vietnam and Its Aftermath

John Musgrave

December 1, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: 'Black Hawk Down'

Dirk Ringgenberg

November 14, 2022

Service Under Stress: Nursing in the Era of COVID-19

Patrick Robinson

November 9, 2022

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Maggie Haberman

November 2, 2022

Genesis of Command: The Leadership Origins of Ulysses S. Grant

Harry S. Laver

November 1, 2022

Segregation, Redlining, and Opportunity Hoarding: A Case for Reform

Sheryll Cashin

October 27, 2022

Data-Driven Growth: What KC Can Learn From Memphis

Doug McGowen

October 12, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: 'Judgment at Nuremberg'

Mark Hull

October 10, 2022

State of Poetry: The Poets Laureate of Missouri and Kansas

Maryfrances Wagner, Huascar Medina

October 4, 2022

Drawn to Greatness: The Art of Caldecott Medal-Winning Books

Chris Raschka, Crystal Faris

October 3, 2022

Can We Trust Mainstream Media?

Ari Fleischer, David Von Drehle

September 28, 2022

Ban These Books? Let’s Talk

Crystal Faris, Kaite Stover, Steven Woolfolk

September 22, 2022