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Kansas City’s River Market area was known in the 1970s as River Quay, a redeveloped home to restaurants and bohemian shops—and site of a viol...

Barry’s 1939 comedy—about a ditzy socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a newspaper...

Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be...

To kick off this year’s McKinzie symposium—One Nation Under God: The Politics of America’s Religious Diversity—the University of Wisconsin...

Retired CIA officer turned political activist Ray McGovern examines whether 4th Amendment guarantees “against unreasonable searche...

Some countries are so good at educating children that virtually all their youngsters can make complex arguments and solve complex problems. In othe...

After months of contentious debate, the Missouri State Board of Education has finalized a plan to address the state’s unaccredited school districts...

Two American originals—baseball and musical comedy—meet in this 1955 fantasy which updates the Faustian legend to the modern American b...

Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...

According to an ancient Frankish ordinance, “He who claims that someone else is covered in dung shall be liable to pay 120 denari.” In Skamania Cou...