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Two American originals—baseball and musical comedy—meet in this 1955 fantasy which updates the Faustian legend to the modern American base...

Barry’s 1939 comedy—about a ditzy socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a newspaper re...

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

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

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 sowed t...

The Plaza Branch concludes its annual Kansas City Architectures series, which in recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War focused on anteb...

The Plaza Branch continues its annual Kansas City Architecture series, focusing this year on antebellum homes in recognition of the sesquicentennial o...

The Plaza Branch hosts its annual Kansas City Architecture series, focusing this year on antebellum homes in recognition of the sesqu...