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In association with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, re-enactors and historians will participate in an 1860s-themed fashion show. The will...

On June 8, 1966, a massive EF-5 tornado cut a 22-mile swath across eastern Kansas before smashing through Topeka. Author Bonar Me...

John Curatola of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the milita...

Area artist Lynus Young discusses his show, Vapor DEVA, on display in the Guldner Gallery at the Central Library...

Award-winning author Leo Damrosch discusses his new biography, Tocqueville’s Discovery of America....

Urban forestry advocate David Nowak discusses planning efforts to advance an urban and community forest plan in Kansas City. Nowak...

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, making a brief suborbital mission that marked the first manned launch of Project M...

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican victory over the French invaders at the Battle of Puebla in1862. Now one of the most popula...

Kansas native and renowned baseball statistician Bill James discusses his new book Popular Crime, an examin...

On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht, sailed into the waters of Long Island Sound, and disappeared. What happened was...