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Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...

Kansas City gets a prime view of the celestial event of a lifetime – the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States since 1979...

In a discussion of her book Marriage Markets, the University of Minnesota’s June Carbone – a former law pro...

Art historian Joan Stack explores how two 1845 paintings by Missouri artist and politician George Caleb Bingham may have reflected anxiety about Pr...

In a discussion of his new book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein makes the case that the racial divide i...

Patrick Henry is a largely forgotten founding father today, his accomplishments overshadowed by his oratory. Historian Jon Kukla, former director of t...

Folklorist and historian Adam Miller recalls the frontier-life origins of the folk music of Kansas and Missouri. A singer and autohar...

Author Mary Beth Leatherdale lends context to today’s heart-rending stream of refugees from Syria and other troubled countries in a d...

Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...