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Architectural historian Keith Eggener looks at the heritage of architect Louis Curtiss (1865-1924), often describ...

Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to...

Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...

British actor Pip Utton performs his one-man show about Charles Dickens, presenting the writer as a supremely contented man now that...

Area artist Lynus Young discusses his show, Vapor DEVA, on display in the Guldner Gallery at the Central Library...

Urban forestry advocate David Nowak discusses planning efforts to advance an urban and community forest plan in Kansas City. Nowak...

Julian Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, interprets the life and art of...

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces attacked Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, ending an excruciating period of uncert...

International relations scholar John Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago discusses his new book, Why Leaders Lie, a compreh...

Mark Gerges of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the influenc...