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Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

Author Mary Beth Leatherdale lends context to today’s heart-rending stream of refugees from Syria and other troubled countries in a d...

Originally airing on PBS’ Frontline, Being Mortal follows Boston surgeon Atul Gawande in examining how we care for...

Folklorist and historian Adam Miller recalls the frontier-life origins of the folk music of Kansas and Missouri. A singer and autohar...

The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the amiable, comp...

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Patrick Henry is a largely forgotten founding father today, his accomplishments overshadowed by his oratory. Historian Jon Kukla, former director of t...

In a discussion of his new book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein makes the case that the racial divide i...

Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, examines the exquisite paradox of the Monarch butterfly...

In a discussion of her book Marriage Markets, the University of Minnesota’s June Carbone – a former law pro...