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During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi...

Preservationist Bradley Wolf, KC’s historic preservation officer for more than 17 years, discusses a recently released second edition...

For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...

In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...

The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

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

Art historian Joan Stack explores how two 1845 paintings by Missouri artist and politician George Caleb Bingham may have reflected anxiety about Pr...

The world’s eyes were drawn in April to the iconic tower of Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial, site of the official centennial commemoration of our count...

Infamous characters and sensational incidents abounded in the Ozarks immediately after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. The mining distri...