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Since his first celluloid depiction in 1908, Jesse James has been the subject of more than 40 films and has been portrayed by the likes of Tyrone P...

Louis Armstrong was among the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century and a giant of modern American culture, knocking the Beatles off the to...

Jonathan Bender discusses his new book Lego: A Love Story, chronicling his time spent researching the c...

Bill Braniff discusses the terrorist threat faced by the United States and explains how close examination of the environments in...

Most Americans are unaware of how revered Ulysses S. Grant was in his lifetime, then often considered to be equal in stature to George Washington...

John Tibbetts, an associate professor of theater and film at the University of Kansas, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth...

Former Fortune magazine technology reporter David Kirkpatrick tracks the meteoric rise of Facebook from dorm room novel...

Don Lambert discusses the efforts of 40 men and women whose so-called Topeka Constitution marked a milestone on the road Kansas w...

Joseph Opala, the exhibit creator for Bunce Island: A British Slave Castle in Sierra Leone, draws on his 30 ye...

Baseball historian G. Michael Green discusses his new biography of Charlie Finley, the former owner of the Athletics who moved th...