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Approaching the 150th anniversary of the original release of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, author Anne Boyd Rioux...

C.J. Janovy, former editor of The Pitch and now the digital content editor for public radio affiliate KCUR, examines the evo...

From four different prisons over 27 years of confinement, Nelson Mandela penned a multitude of letters to prison authorities, government officials, co...

Rutgers University historian Rachel Devlin examines an underappreciated aspect of civil rights history – the crucial role of young African-Amer...

Thomas Frank is a liberal by conviction but an equal-opportunity critic of America’s foundering political system. In a discussion of...

It appears to be the find of a lifetime. Shakespeareans worldwide were electrified earlier this year by the announced discovery of a previously unk...

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The four-day HEAR Now Festival, the audio equivalent of a film festival, returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all f...

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Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr –t...