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Don Lambert discusses the efforts of 40 men and women whose so-called Topeka Constitution marked a milestone on the road Kansas w...

Joseph Opala, the exhibit creator for Bunce Island: A British Slave Castle in Sierra Leone, draws on his 30 ye...

 Joelouis Mattox discusses his series of articles in the Kansas City Call about the NAACP and the history of African-Am...

Just in time for Independence Day, William Hogeland presents new research and top-notch scholarship to reveal how the American R...

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Shirley Christian presents an original talk on Carrie Westlake Whitney, librarian a...

Kenneth H. Winn tells the seldom-heard story of Indian agent George Sibley and Ellen Lorr, whose failure to marry touche...

Allan Meltzer, the leading historian of the nation’s central bank, and Tom Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve...

Historian and author Duane W. Roller presents his book, Cleopatra: A Biography, described as a “rich, co...

Restaurateur Carl DiCapo tells the history of Kansas City’s iconic eatery, Italian Gardens, on Sunday,...

Katie Armitage explores how survivors of Quantrill’s Lawrence Raid rebuilt their lives, their town, and memorialized their exper...