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Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech – delivered 70 years ago at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri – still resounds today. Most contemporar...

Guido Ruggiero underscored his position as one of the world’s leading authorities on the Italian Renaissance with his most recent...

Participating in the conversation are several notable local music personalities: Katy Guillen (of the band Katy Guillen and the Gi...

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...

Everyone is susceptible to implicit bias – unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect judgments about others based on their race, ethnicity,...

Stephen Locke and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg find beauty in bad weather – in thunderstorms and tornadoes, wall clouds...

Winston Churchill wasn’t overtly religious. But he subscribed to divine destiny, telling a classmate at age 16 that he foresaw a day when “London w...

Clarina Nichols died more than a quarter-century before Kansas became the eighth state to grant women the right to vote in 1912. But the dedicated...

Baseball is back, launching a new major-league season April 3. That, of course, is big news in Kansas City, where the Royals begin defense of their fi...

From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has...