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Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first black woman...

Veteran Washington journalist Carl M. Cannon, co-author of Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawy...

Watch and listen as Kansas City jazz greats come to life. Chuck Haddix discusses the musicians portrayed in...

Lately, schools and colleges everywhere in the United States have been discarding studies in the humanities as if they were idle luxuries and e...

Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduces Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson...

Kansas City-based independent writer and producer Jack Cashill marks the one-year anniversary of the $787 billion American Recov...

Bill Braniff discusses the terrorist threat faced by the United States and explains how close examination of the environments in...

Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee discusses his career and the writing life as part of the Writers at Work seri...

In 1891, Siegmund Harzfeld and the Parisian Cloak Company introduced a new era of commerce and fashion to the residents of Kansas City. The ready-t...

Artists Garry Noland and Cory Imig discuss the inspirations and ideas that informed the exhibit Pitty Patt(rn)...