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He was escorted to the county line by a sheriff’s deputy, clambered across creaky old railroad bridges that couldn’t pass an OSHA inspection, and dine...

Photojournalist Gil Cohen-Magen has spent a decade in Israel covering not only political and military conflict but also the coming to...

Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg discusses her new book Needle in the Bone about the incredib...

Ever get the feeling that Christmas has morphed into something it was never supposed to be? How did a celebration of joy, togetherness, l...

Author Robert W. Merry wraps up the presidential election – and the Hail to the Chiefs series – with a fresh, playful, and challen...

Why study Freud? Harvard Medical School’s Edison K. Miyawaki, author of What to Read on Love, not Sex: Freud, Fiction, an...

The result of uncontrolled plowing on the Great Plains, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s turned prairies into deserts and unleashed a pattern of massive...

With his thick spectacles, big teeth, and boundless energy, President Theodore Roosevelt was a cartoonist’s dream subject. Rick Marschall...

In the waning days of the 2012 political campaign, KCUR-FM and the Library join forces to present a live surrogate Presidential de...

For all his accomplishments and advanced thinking, Thomas Jefferson could not get beyond his own limited perspective in matters of race. Drawing from...