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We’re well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln the country lawyer, the principled statesman, the revered martyr. In a discussion of his new historical nov...

Valiant knights. Chaste virgins. Bawdy widows. Our notions of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages tend to come from Hollywood and the History Chan...

Architect Paul Helmer examines the classical design of Central Presbyterian Church and Grand Avenue Temple United Methodist C...

The Kansas Historical Society’s Donna Rae Pearson talks about the 12 Black women who were plaintiffs in the landmark – and now 70-year-old – Brown vs....

French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...

Former Missouri archivist Gary Kremer, one of the state’s foremost historians, discusses the latest of his 12 books,...

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...

In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...

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

Robert Alter, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English, discusses that work, the significant implications from even t...