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Former Kansas City Star columnist Bill Tammeus discusses his anger over the loss of his nephew in the terrorist attacks o...

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

The sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre continues on Mother’s Day with...

Ina P. Montgomery tells the stories of unknown “sheroes,” African American women who toiled in obscurity and rarely made headlines...

R. Stephen Green, newly-named superintendent of the Kansas City Public Schools, continues his series of public conversations. He f...

Whether an election is about picking a president or passing a tax increase, citizens may find themselves asking: “Does my vote really count?...

The British Museum’s Roger Bland looks at the successes of the U.K.’s Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme, legislation aimed...

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...

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Attica Locke discusses her novel Black Water Rising, set in Houston in the early 1980s. Former campus radical Jay Porter is...