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For his latest book Thomas Frank, the best-selling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How C...

For all his accomplishments and advanced thinking, Thomas Jefferson could not get beyond his own limited perspective in matters of race. Drawing from...

The War of 1812 began with much confidence among U.S. leaders. Thomas Jefferson predicted that the conquest of Canada was “a mere matter of marchin...

Peabody Award-winning radio personality Michael Lasser explores the songs inspired by our town, from “Everything’s Up To Date in...

Novelist Naomi Benaron and filmmaker Leah Warshawski, descendants of Holocaust survivors, discuss their work abou...

Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, wit...

The grandmothers of today are younger, healthier, better educated, and better off than grandmothers have ever been. And, as photojournalist Pa...

What will the Affordable Care Act mean to the lives, health, and finances of you and your family? How will it be implemented? Jay Ang...

Steve Paul is joined by three of the area writers who contributed to Kansas City Noir, a collection of shor...

Taking the White House requires a team, and America had never seen anything like the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Historian...