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In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties? Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr.,...

How could a president have won a war and lost a re-election? For George H.W. Bush, being Commander-in-Chief during Desert Storm was not enough....

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

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

Author Zachary Karabell examines Chester Alan Arthur, who was propelled into the presidency by the assassination of James Garfield an...

Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...

The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...

James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

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The Kansas City Public Library and the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre kick off the fifth season of the Script-in-Hand...