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Irish writer Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz is the followup to her international bestseller The Gathering, winn...

Kristen Iversen, author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, examines the colorful life of the famed “unsinkable” Molly Brow...

Biographer Justin Wolff examines the life and art of Missouri’s Thomas Hart Benton, whose murals bejewel many a public building. F...

The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...

What, exactly, is presidential leadership? What is the current state of executive power in the U.S.? What lingering effects will the current financial...

Award-winning architect Wendell Burnette discusses his distinctive approach to architecture, one based on developing consensus to cre...

Historian Julie Courtwright explains the role of fire – man-made and natural – in shaping the Great Plains and the lives of its resid...

Noah Feldman examines how four of FDR’s Supreme Court appointees – Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert Jack...

Guy Gugliotta discusses his new book about the raising of the U.S. Capitol, a process steeped in irony. Even as the majestic struc...

Attica Locke discusses her novel Black Water Rising, set in Houston in the early 1980s. Former campus radical Jay Porter is...