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Author and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu discusses his new book Whatever Gets You Through the Night, an irreverent and de...

Author Larry Bennett tackles some of our commonly held ideas about the “Windy City” with the goal of better understanding modern-day...

The Kansas City Public Library celebrates the 40th birthday of Ziggy with an appearance by Tom Wilson, who...

Emory University historian Deborah E. Lipstadt examines the May 1960 capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli ag...

On the evening of May 20, 1957, an F-5 tornado tore into the communities of Ottawa and Spring Hill, Kansas, and Martin City, Grandview, Hickman Mil...

Barron H. Lerner – professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University – discusses his new book One for the Ro...

Reporter and author Brian Burnes and Katz family descendant Steve Katz launch The Kings of Cut-Rate: The...

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

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...