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Award-winning architect Wendell Burnette discusses his distinctive approach to architecture, one based on developing consensus to cre...

Historian Julie Courtwright explains the role of fire – man-made and natural – in shaping the Great Plains and the lives of its resid...

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Noah Feldman examines how four of FDR’s Supreme Court appointees – Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert Jack...

The Metropolitan Theatre Ensemble continues its sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Wendy Wasserstein’s...

Guy Gugliotta discusses his new book about the raising of the U.S. Capitol, a process steeped in irony. Even as the majestic struc...

Attica Locke discusses her novel Black Water Rising, set in Houston in the early 1980s. Former campus radical Jay Porter is...

James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

On the 100th anniversary of the creation of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, John Tibbetts looks at the career of fantasy writer Ed...

Landon Rowland discusses the achievements of 19th century railroad developer Arthur Stilwell, who forever changed the Kansas City...