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Before embodying the American dream – co-founding H&R Block and building it into the world’s largest tax preparation company – Henry W. Bloch help...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...

Bring your energy. Bust out some moves. Young attendees don special headphones and choose from several different musical, DJ-hosted channels to which...

From the Carter Family to Bill Monroe, from Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash to Garth Brooks, a succession of 20th-century performers—stars...

When first staged in New York City in 1935, Waiting for Lefty made a sensation of its playwright, Clifford Ode...

Television and Donald Trump grew up together, a synergistic happenstance that carried an attention-hogging, reality TV-imbued, Twitter- and Fox New...

Kansas City-based urban planner, designer, and architect Kevin Klinkenberg examines why and how cities being reinvented today, who the winners and los...

Born and raised in Topeka (which appears in some fashion in all of his works), novelist, essayist, and poet Ben Lerner is one of t...

Land conversation and climate change expert James Levitt examines the challenges of protecting today’s large areas of natural land, i...

First performed in Turin, Italy, in 1896, La bohème became one of the world’s most eternally popular operas and a signature work of com...