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Folklorist and historian Adam Miller recalls the frontier-life origins of the folk music of Kansas and Missouri. A singer and autohar...

Patrick Henry is a largely forgotten founding father today, his accomplishments overshadowed by his oratory. Historian Jon Kukla, former director of t...

In a discussion of his new book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein makes the case that the racial divide i...

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Sisters Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas were once quiet convent dwellers. Forty-six years ago, however, the two nu...

In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878, wh...

As part of the country’s celebration of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., Occidental College history professor Sharla...

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A tragic chapter in America’s westward expansion turned sensationalistic when some members of the stranded and starving Donner-Reed party of 1846 bega...

Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempest a...