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David Mills and Kayla Westra, co-authors of Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues, assess the historical accuracy of the classic 1963 film...

Learn about the past, present, and future of vision loss during the premiere of the podcast and video series Foresight, produced by Kansas City’s A...

Award-winning essayist and poet Taylor Brorby discusses his new memoir Boys and Oil, recounting the uneasiness of being gay in a rugged land of coa...

Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c...

In a discussion of her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, New York urban revital...

Historian Emilye Crosby of the State University of New York at Geneseo discusses the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the crucial rol...

Drawing from her book Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendme...

Kansas City soprano Victoria Botero leads an international ensemble of musicians, storytellers, and culture bearers in celebrating the transcendent wr...

As Vladimir Putin engages in nuclear saber-rattling amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, military historian Gates Brown of the U.S. Army Command and Gene...

Note the 7 p.m. start time Award-winning author, historian, podcast host, and New Yorker staffer Jill Lepore juxtaposes the political and personal...