Search the Library

Was he an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer? An appeaser and isolationist? For all his public activities – financier, film producer, kingmak...

Architectural historian Keith Eggener looks at the heritage of architect Louis Curtiss (1865-1924), often describ...

In the late 19th century statesman Otto von Bismarck unified Germany while embodying everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Biographer...

A specialist in the Atomic Age, Michael Scheibach examines how Americans in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s dealt with the threat of nuc...

The plays and poetry of William Shakespeare have inspired some of the world’s most beautiful music. This performance by members of the...

Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...

For prize-winning geographer James Shortridge, Kansas City is more than the sum of cultural icons like barbecue, jazz, and sports...

Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to...

Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, author, politician, postmaster, and civic activist. But noted economist and Franklin biographer Mark Sko...

Think you know Charles Dickens? Help celebrate the bicentennial of the great Victorian novelist’s birth with a special performance by...