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

On the 100th anniversary of the creation of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, John Tibbetts looks at the career of fantasy writer Ed...

Offering the keynote address for this year’s series on the American presidency, presidential scholar Robert Dallek examines why some...

Art educator Carol Inge Hockett examines how artists reacted to the values-shattering horrors of World War I with Dadism, an art...

Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts local author J. Alexander Greenwood for a discussion about the inspiration behind his first n...

Historian of the United States Senate Donald Ritchie discusses presidential relations with Congress since Harry S. Truman. Ritchie...

Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...

University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry offers a new interpretation of the Confederacy that contends the South sowe...

An initiative of Kansas City’s leading business organizations, The Gigabit Challenge solicited business plans from technology entrepr...