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Public art and its accompanying community participation contribute significantly to the identity of a city. In addition to inspiring dialogue and pro...

Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in such a fashion that his first novel simultaneously addressed two divergent audiences: the yo...

Esther Schor discusses her book about the life of Emma Lazarus, the iconoclastic 19th century poet and activist whos...

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No event in American history was more pivotal — or more contested — than the decision by Congress to declare independence in July 1776. Even months af...

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, making a brief suborbital mission that marked the first manned launch of Project M...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with George Caleb Bingham, whose paintings of Missouri and the American frontier have...

Kansas City-based independent writer and producer Jack Cashill discusses his latest book in which he contends President Barack Obama did not write his...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by local actor...

Steven Casey discusses his new book Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United St...