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 Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III hosts a conversation about humanities studies and the future of America's...

In April 1862 a Union force under Ulysses S. Grant and a Confederate army led by Albert Sidney Johnston clashed in southwestern Tennessee in the Ba...

Historian Donald R. Hickey, author of The Rockets’ Red Glare: An Illustrated History of The War of 1812, di...

Author Christopher B. Leinberger describes how government policy over the last 60 years – driven by the auto and oil industry – has e...

Leadership is less about having all the answers than about asking the right questions. Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan...

Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Tom Pendergast, portrayed by Bill Wor...

Historian Brooks Blevins examines a brutal 1929 murder and rape in the Arkansas Ozarks and demonstrates how press coverage of the...

Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Langston Hughes, portrayed by Charles Ev...

On the eve of the 136th anniversary of the famous “Last Stand,” retired National Park Service Superintendent Paul L. Hedren asks: Was...

Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Amelia Earhart, portrayed by Ann Birney...