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Husband and wife team Monroe and Jean Dodd take a time-traveling journey across the Sunflower State with their new b...

 Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III hosts a conversation about humanities studies and the future of America's...

In April 1862 a Union force under Ulysses S. Grant and a Confederate army led by Albert Sidney Johnston clashed in southwestern Tennessee in the Ba...

Historian Donald R. Hickey, author of The Rockets’ Red Glare: An Illustrated History of The War of 1812, di...

Historian Brooks Blevins examines a brutal 1929 murder and rape in the Arkansas Ozarks and demonstrates how press coverage of the...

Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Langston Hughes, portrayed by Charles Ev...

On the eve of the 136th anniversary of the famous “Last Stand,” retired National Park Service Superintendent Paul L. Hedren asks: Was...

Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Amelia Earhart, portrayed by Ann Birney...

Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by veteran Chautauqua p...

Ethan S. Rafuse of the military history department of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses t...