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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...

Carlos Eire gave the world a moving and definitive look into life as an exile in his first memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Con...

The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the late...

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America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quarter...

Irene Tinker helped compile and edit Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, a c...

With the new novel The Cosmopolitans by lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman, the New York-based Femi...

From racist cartoons and spray-painted anti-Semitic symbols to protest chants and signs condemning gays, hate speech has a long and perplexing history...

Faith healer? Fraud? Or both? The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resembled popular...

Start your MidAmeriCon II day at the Kansas City Public Library with a presentation by science fiction/fantasy authors Beth Cato and...