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As the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival settles into its summer production of Shakespeare in Love, let us reappreciate the genius of...

What if your class took a field trip to the moon … and you missed the space bus back to Earth? Local author and illustrator John Hare...

In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...

Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...

The U.S. spends far more than other developed nations on health care—a projected $3.8 trillion this year—yet lags in performance and customer satisfac...

A young American flautist, Edwin Rist, broke into the British Museum of Natural History in Tring in 2009 and made off with nearly 300 bird skins. Biza...

Vartan Gregorian’s considerable legacy as a scholar and humanitarian stretches from his presidencies of the New York Public Library,...

With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...

Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught dia...

In a discussion of the new book Wide-Open Town, its editors – historians Diane Mutti Burke, John He...