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Amid the United States’ protracted involvement in Vietnam, its military confronted racial justice demands more directly than perhaps any other institu...

Barbara Brackman – quilter, quilting historian, and author – examines quilt making in Missouri with a Kentucky connection and 19th-ce...

Andrew McCarthy may be best known for his membership in Hollywood’s Brat Pack and roles in classic films including St. Elmo's Fir...

Buki Papillon’s acclaimed debut novel An Ordinary Wonder revolves around an intersex Nigerian teenager whose gender...

In a discussion of his book The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America, author and personal finance consultant...

UMKC professor and author Clancy Martin joins Angela Elam, formerly of public radio’s New Letters on the Air...

Poet Brian Daldorph, novelist Barbara Stuber, and Journey House Manager Samantha Pettus join the Library’s Anne Knig...

Robert Alter, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English, discusses that work, the significant implications from even t...

In the launch of a new series, Turning Points, in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military historia...

In a discussion drawing from her book White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality...