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Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out...

Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...

Before the birth of Kansas City jazz, the musical community served up ragtime and blues. In 1917, the military-themed anthem “Over There” became a...

Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...

The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is...

Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...

Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...

University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry offers a new interpretation of the Confederacy that contends the South sowe...