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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...

As a member of the Black Panther Party, Jamal Joseph advocated burning Columbia University to the ground. Forty years later he&rsq...

No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Alan Brinkley arg...

Margot McMillen, author of The Golden Lane, explores how a protest by thousands of women at the 1916 Democratic National Con...

Reporter/pundit Eleanor Clift joins Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III for a public conversation...

Americans view the Korean conflict as an American war in which the United States lost nearly 38,000 men. But above all else it was a war between Korea...

Taking the White House requires a team, and America had never seen anything like the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Historian...