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One of the nation’s top military historians, John McManus of the Missouri University of Science and Technology, examines the influenc...

Columbus Junction, Iowa, doesn’t fit the Midwest small-town stereotype. As large agricultural operations and meat processing plants have become promin...

Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught dia...

Reihan Salam sees the United States’ immigration crisis as solvable. It requires … ahem, compromise. The son of Bangla...

This annual screening-and-discussion series continues in February with more psychological studies of films helmed by female directors....

Bruce Katz, director of Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab, discusses his book The New Localism: How Cities Can...

One of the architects of America’s current monetary policy started small. Esther George, then a teenager, stuffed canceled checks int...

The Library continues its examination of immigration, exploring the tension between America’s historical acceptance of newcomers and periodic backlash...

Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...

Pulitzer Prize recipient Tyehimba Jess “is inventive, prophetic, wondrous,” says fellow award-winning poet Nikky Finney. Jess highlig...