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Margaret Atwood’s writing spans more than five decades and includes poetry, essays, nonfiction, short stories, children’s books, and other genres. In...

**Join us starting at 6 p.m. for a reception hour with food by Dutzel's Catering, music by The Phantastics, and two special drinks. The Kansas City...

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

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...

The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...

The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...

Sectional Crisis and Civil War on the Western Border, 1860-1865, moderated by William Piston, Missouri State Univers...