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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...

In his new book, Philip E. Auerswald envisions an optimistic future in which forward-thinking entrepreneurs emerge from cultures arou...

The sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre concludes with the children’s c...

The shift from old-fashioned paper ballots to electronic voting has raised concerns over whether elections results can be manipulated. Are our vot...

Biographer Douglas Brinkley looks at the life and career of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, the St. Joseph native who became the most tr...

Founded in 1993, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival is dedicated to bringing the Bard’s great plays free of charge to Kansas City audiences....

Choral director Simon Carrington and members of his Simon Carrington Chamber Singers join their voices to those of 3...

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

Curator of decorative arts Catherine Futter and her colleagues from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art provide an illustrated behind-the...