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Offering the keynote address for this year’s series on the American presidency, presidential scholar Robert Dallek examines why some...

The British Museum’s Roger Bland looks at the successes of the U.K.’s Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme, legislation aimed...

Biographer Douglas Brinkley looks at the life and career of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, the St. Joseph native who became the most tr...

LaDene Morton, author of The Waldo Story: The Home of Friendly Merchants, traces the history of the district from the Civ...

Historian Jeff Broadwater argues that no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth pr...

How could a president have won a war and lost a re-election? For George H.W. Bush, being Commander-in-Chief during Desert Storm was not enough....

In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties? Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr....

Author Zachary Karabell examines Chester Alan Arthur, who was propelled into the presidency by the assassination of James Garfield an...

Actor and author John Lithgow offers an entertaining afternoon of insight, anecdotes, and readings. Lithgow, a Tony and Emmy award...

What will the Affordable Care Act mean to the lives, health, and finances of you and your family? How will it be implemented? Jay Ang...