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Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, author, politician, postmaster, and civic activist. But noted economist and Franklin biographer Mark Sko...

Screenwriter Mitch Brian employs original texts and film clips to illustrate how classic (Chandler, Hammett, Thompson) and modern noi...

Esther Schor discusses her book about the life of Emma Lazarus, the iconoclastic 19th century poet and activist whos...

In the late 19th century statesman Otto von Bismarck unified Germany while embodying everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Biographer...

Was he an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer? An appeaser and isolationist? For all his public activities – financier, film producer, kingmak...

Public art and its accompanying community participation contribute significantly to the identity of a city. In addition to inspiring dialogue and pro...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Willa Cather, portrayed by Jan Chapman...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with James Naismith, portrayed by Bill Worle...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Kansas City Star founder William Rockhill Nelso...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with William Clarke Quantrill, portrayed by...