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In 1937 the German ocean liner St. Louis set sail from Hamburg to Cuba. Aboard were nearly 1,000 Jews hoping to escape the Nazis. But midw...

James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

Attica Locke discusses her novel Black Water Rising, set in Houston in the early 1980s. Former campus radical Jay Porter is...

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...