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The Central Library again makes a place on First Friday for the entire family. Among the offerings: exhibits featuring Kansas City-area Jessic...

John Curatola of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College examines America’s nuclear weapons program in the wake of World War...

Kansas City photographer and instructor Reed Hoffmann offers a tutorial on photographing the rare, spectacular total solar eclipse...

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...