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University of South Carolina scholar F.K. Clementi examines the origins of the Holocaust, and looks beyond the rise of Adolf Hitler and German...

University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham discusses his work unearthing several young T. rex fossils in the Hell Creek rocks...

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Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...

American politics, and democracy itself, are seemingly in crisis amid today’s hyper-partisanship, legislative gridlock, and growing public distrust...

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The First Amendment facilitated such essential American reforms as ending slavery and extending voting rights to women. Former USA TODAY edit...

Cornell University historian Ed Baptist traces much of what has happened with race relations in the U.S. in the past 150 years to efforts to co...

Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to t...

In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s...