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As Vladimir Putin engages in nuclear saber-rattling amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, military historian Gates Brown of the U.S. Army Command and Gene...

Drawing from copious research and interviews with principal participants for his new book Mafia Dreams: A True Crime Saga of Young Men at the End of a...

In a discussion of his book The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Da...

In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays presentation, Suzanne Hogan, creator and producer of KCUR public radio’s A People’s History of Kansas City, dis...

In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...

Drawing from her book Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendme...

Iran once served U.S. interests in the Middle East. Now, it’s seen as one of the largest state sponsors of terrorism in opposition to U.S. objectives...

In a discussion of his new book The Girl with the Agate Eyes: The Untold Story of Mattie Howard, Kansas City’s Queen of the Underworld...

In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...

Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...