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Best known for his artistic achievements, Michelangelo not only filled hundreds of sheets with drawings, sketches, and doodles, but he also composed h...

Diane Mutti Burke, an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, discusses he...

Historian Edward Bowie explains why the military accomplishments of Alexander the Great remain a benchmark agai...

Following a contentious meeting in December 1955, the Kansas City Bar Association voted to admit both African Americans and women as members. Thi...

Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III discusses the life and career of iconic film director Frank Capra....

Owning a business is the very definition of the American dream for many. Timothy Sandefur discusses his new book The...

Noted historian Paul Nagel joins Douglas Adams, the great-great-great-great grandson of John Adams, for an examinati...

Kansas native John B. McLendon is remembered as an innovative basketball tactician and the last living protégé of James Naismith,...

Historian Donald Worster discusses John Wesley Powell’s 1869 journey down the Green and Colorado rivers and his trip through the...

Lewis Lapham, editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, examines the foundations of the world’s greatest cities, fr...