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Historian Jeff Broadwater argues that no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth pr...

Author Edwin Marty looks at successful urban farm programs, part of an environmental and social movement that could transform our nat...

Author Brandon G. Kinney explores the complex series of events that led to the brief but bloody Mormon War of 1838...

Flamboyant, confident, and controversial, Edith Bolling Wilson was not your traditional First Lady. After her husband, Woodrow Wilson, suffered a debi...

Legendary CBS anchorman Dan Rather joins Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III for a public conversa...

Author Max Holland delves into the enigma that is Mark Felt (1913-2008), the FBI official who as the mysterious Deep Throat shared...

Whether your goal is to rise to the top of your company, make straight A’s, lose weight, or earn a million dollars, the principles and strategies a...

Author James B. Stewart examines America’s perjury epidemic through the cases of Martha Stewart, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Barry Bond...

Sid Shachnow discusses his new memoir Hope and Honor, which traces his life from a childhood spent in th...

In his new book, Philip E. Auerswald envisions an optimistic future in which forward-thinking entrepreneurs emerge from cultures arou...