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

Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate...

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...

 Author and political activist Charles Hardy discusses his book Cowboy in Caracas: A North American Memoir of Venezue...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Walker Howe explains how President Abraham Lincoln’s youthful obsession with self-improvemen...

Mark Lee Gardner discusses his new book about one of the most thrilling manhunts in Wild West history, lawman Pat Garrett’s purs...

Libertarian economist Jeff Miron discusses the economic impact of the federal government’s 2009 stimulus package on Tuesd...

Kansas City Royals play-by-play announcer Ryan Lefebvre discusses his struggles with depression and how he emerged with a new perspec...