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Artist Glen Hansen presents and discusses the more than three dozen drawings and paintings that make up...

The need to understand China has never been more pressing, yet the complexity of this ever-transforming giant doesn’t make that easy. China expert...

Writer Norma Cantú, internationally known scholar of Latino and Chicano literature and studies, reads from her book Canicula:...

Noah Feldman examines how four of FDR’s Supreme Court appointees – Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert Jack...

Though far from the fashion center of New York, Kansas City once boasted a large, vibrant garment manufacturing industry. During its heyday in the ear...

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Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boar...

On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...

Journalist and local historian Cindy Higgins presents an illustrated talk about the brewers and breweries of early Kansas, their role in fostering a s...

Jessica Neuwirth, founder of the women’s rights organization Equality Now, discusses her new book Equal Means Equal: W...