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The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history. Join us...

After spending the past two weeks as local and national celebrities — saluted on the editorial page of The Kansas City Star and celebra...

Decades before Oprah, Dr. Phil, and today’s innumerable gurus peddling surefire plans for bettering ourselves, Missourian Dale Carnegie...

Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Indepen...

Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be...

To kick off this year’s McKinzie symposium—One Nation Under God: The Politics of America’s Religious Diversity—the University of Wisconsin...

Kansas City’s River Market area was known in the 1970s as River Quay, a redeveloped home to restaurants and bohemian shops—and site of a viol...

John B. Judis, senior editor at The New Republic, examines the half-century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs&mda...

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mit...

Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submar...