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She is no longer a household name, but during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration Frances Perkins was one of America’s most inf...

Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...

The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is...

Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...

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An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City are denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life because they cannot read.To ce...

For nearly 50 years Josephine Marcus Earp was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the legendary hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As an indep...

Beyond fathering a nation, founding a great university, and leaving a legacy as an architect and inventor, Thomas Jefferson was a forefather of mod...

Like so many others in the late 1930s, the young black Americans who would become known as the Tuskegee Airmen were eager for military service as the...

Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...