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In a discussion of his new, carefully researched book Tombstone, best-selling author Tom Clavin revisits Tu...

Where are you on the complicated legacy of Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols? Should his name be removed from the parkway running to and alongside...

The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi...

As America’s major spectator sports plot a return from their COVID-19-induced hiatus, reactions range from elation to apprehension to … wh...

For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S...

What has made anti-black violence such a predominant feature of life not only in the U.S. but around the world? Why does race seem to color almost...

Germany’s defeat in World War II was inevitable by late 1943, but Adolf Hitler supposedly had an audacious plan for softening the final terms: disp...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R...

We’ve been beguiled over the past decade by a romanticized, Silicon Valley-inspired take on entrepreneurship, glorifying its practitioners as darin...

The Library begins a series of programs exploring issues related to COVID-19 with an examination of the immediate and long-term effects that the pa...