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Our seeming digital dependence notwithstanding, we’re increasingly discovering that some things can never be replaced – at least satisfactorily – by c...

Horticulturally, we have it good in the Midwest. No other place on earth has such an extreme continental climate, and yet it’s home to plants of every...

Few inventions have had as much effect on contemporary American society as television. Think I Love Lucy, All in the Family, a nation gathered in comm...

Kansas City’s climate is so-so, there are no enticing mountains or ocean views, and the metro area population has climbed only modestly over the past...

Farm-to-table dining may be trendy elsewhere, but it’s a way of life in Kansas. In The New Kansas Cookbook: Rural Roots, Modern Table...

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The Library opens a new intergenerational movie series that welcomes individuals with dementia, their friends, and families.   The...

Jane Ferguson’s last and perhaps greatest gift to her husband of 25 years didn’t seem, at first, to be a gift at all. It came as a request sometime be...

Historian Peter Cozzens offers an evenhanded look at that bloody struggle between whites and Native Americans, drawing from...

It was the plight of women in Afghanistan, where the oversight of morality extends to the imprisonment of rape victims for extramarital sex, that m...