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James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

Landon Rowland discusses the achievements of 19th century railroad developer Arthur Stilwell, who forever changed the Kansas City...

Art educator Carol Inge Hockett examines how artists reacted to the values-shattering horrors of World War I with Dadism, an art...

Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warned that Communism was on the march. Historian Philip White...

Historian Shawn Leigh Alexander looks at the forgotten men and women who in the late 19th century took up the cause of civil right...

President Calvin Coolidge gets a bad rap, says author Amity Shlaes, who notes that under his leadership the economy grew at a rate...

Rebecca Solnit offers a guided tour of the Bay Area through her latest book, Infinite City, which reinvents...

Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts local author J. Alexander Greenwood for a discussion about the inspiration behind his first n...

Historian of the United States Senate Donald Ritchie discusses presidential relations with Congress since Harry S. Truman. Ritchie...