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Internationally recognized Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig fixes her creative gaze on Lewis Carroll’s classic work of children’s l...

2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that...

Rightly or wrongly—and author Robert E. Litan insists it’s wrongly—the public’s esteem for economists plunged in the w...

Two metro-area landmarks, the stainless steel-spired Temple and the domed Auditorium, accentuate the world headquarters of the Community of Christ...

Defying dire predictions that they would not survive the turn of the millennium, public libraries continue to thrive. Two out of three Americans vi...

The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a...

Few literary works are more quoted, translated, and adapted than Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year marks the sesqui...

Historians have long pointed to the devastation of smallpox and other European-introduced diseases in tracing the demise of North America’s indigen...

Whitney Terrell’s novel, The King of Kings County, remains a landmark examination of white flight and th...

Jessica Neuwirth, founder of the women’s rights organization Equality Now, discusses her new book Equal Means Equal: W...