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An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton

Myrtia Mardikes, Nick Vedros

April 7, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: 'Memphis Belle'

John Curatola

March 28, 2022

Michael Mardikes, Thomas Hart Benton, and the Art of Capturing a Painter at Work

Lara Kuykendall

March 22, 2022

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

Dorothy Wickenden

March 15, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: 'Waterloo'

Mark Gerges

March 14, 2022

An Evening With Patricia Smith

March 10, 2022

The State of Kansas City’s Health and Well-Being

Quinton Lucas, Marvia Jones, Mark Bedell, Paul Kempinski, John Herron

March 8, 2022

Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power

Tai S. Edwards

March 6, 2022

The Vote Collectors

Michael Graff, Nick Ochsner

February 24, 2022

All Boys Aren’t Blue

George M. Johnson, Justice Horn

February 23, 2022

How to Stitch an American Dream

Jenny Doan

February 9, 2022

Raise a Fist, Take a Knee

John Feinstein, J.A. Adande

February 8, 2022

Community Remembrance Project

Carmaletta Williams

February 6, 2022

A Reader’s Guide to Survival in Auschwitz with Shelly Cline and Kaite Stover

January 27, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: 'The Man Who Would Be King'

Brian Steed

January 24, 2022

Work in the (Post) COVID-19 Era

Pro Athlete

January 19, 2022

Work in the (Post) COVID-19 Era

Kaleem Clarkson

January 19, 2022

Dissident Formalisms

Armin Mühsam

December 14, 2021

Poison for Breakfast

Lemony Snicket

December 7, 2021

The Last Liberal Republican

John Roy Price

December 6, 2021

Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell

Steve Paul, Whitney Terrell

December 1, 2021

The Shock and Awe of Sarah Bernhardt in Kansas City

Felicia Londré

November 21, 2021

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World

Howard W. French

November 17, 2021

The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

Joseph J. Ellis, Steve Woolfolk

November 11, 2021