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Jane Austen remains famous today for Pride and Prejudice and other novels in which she reflects on the life of the British land gentry at the end of t...

It's not just bullies in the schoolyard that should worry us. Charles Derber and Yale Magrass point to a larger, mor...

Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a m...

America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quarter...

The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the late...

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George Saunders discusses his best-selling Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for...

Dodge City, Kansas, native Robert Rebein revisits his hometown and Kansas’ high plains often in a discussion of his third book,...

In a discussion of one of the year’s most heralded books, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, author Davi...

Education reform comes fraught with questions. How do we distinguish between exciting, new ideas and costly, ineffective fads? Where can policymakers...