Secret Kansas City

Kansas City landmarks
Anne Kniggendorf
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Truman Takes Over: ‘Like the Moon, Stars, and Planets Had Fallen on Me’

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Gates Brown
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Keys to the Kingdom: An Unfolding History of the Kansas City Chiefs

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David Smale, Steve Wieberg
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Making a Great City: The KC Spirit Playbook

KC Spirit Playbook
Jeffrey Williams, Diane Binckley, Kyle Elliott, Jessica Oliphant
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The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America

Tom Zoellner, Melinda Henneberger
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Old in Art School

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Nell Painter, Kaite Stover
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Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities

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Andre M. Perry, Emmet Pierson Jr.
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Malcolm X
Tamara Payne
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Black Bottom Saints

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Alice Randall, Kaite Stover
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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

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Michael Strevens
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Tom Pendergast and the Feud That Changed the Way States Choose Their Supreme Court Judges

Tom Pendergast
Kenneth H. Winn
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The Liberation of Manila

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Louis DiMarco
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Ban These Books? Let’s Talk

Ban these books? Let's talk!
Crystal Faris, Kaite Stover, Steven Woolfolk
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The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Allen Rostron, Barb Shelly
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Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice

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Pam Fessler
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The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War

William Faulkner
Michael Gorra
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Library of Congress National Book Festival: Celebrating American Ingenuity

Kali Fajardo-Anstine
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Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline

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Julie Chi-hy Suk, Carol Jenkins, Carrie N. Baker, Pat Spearman, Kate Kelly, Marco Gonzalez, Erica Benson
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Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener

Kimberly Hamlin
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Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered

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Saje Mathieu
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No One Is Coming to Save Us

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Stephanie Powell Watts, Kaite Stover
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Everywhere You Don’t Belong

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Gabriel Bump, Kaite Stover
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Myths (and Myth-Busting) in the Era of COVID-19

Mark Steele M.D., Paramdeep Baweja M.D., Steven Woolfolk
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Bridging the Digital Divide in the COVID-19 Era: A Virtual Fireside Chat

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Geoffrey Starks, Quinton Lucas, Mark Bedell, Melissa Robinson, Marshall Stewart, Carrie Coogan, Gwendolyn Grant, Clint Odom
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