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What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

On this date 99 years and 364 days ago, the Panama Canal opened and revolutionized maritime trade. It also threw the Panama Railroad and its parall...

There are few storytellers like old baseball scouts because, well, nobody collects stories like the guys who spend a lifetime crisscrossing America’s...

The pig is big in these parts. Both Missouri and Kansas rank among the nation’s top 10 pork-producing states, annually putting more than 2 million pou...

Thirty years ago, there were no private military and security companies. Now PMSCs, as they’re known, are a vital part of American foreign and militar...

The year 2012 was a watershed for the Hollywood movie industry, producing the likes of Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables,...

For 15 years, aspiring novelist Walter Kirn was drawn into the fun-house world of Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art...

The Midwest’s small towns have produced the entrepreneurial likes of Henry Ford, George Washington Carver, and Walt Disney; artists and entertainers s...

In this year’s Park University Hauptmann Lecture, international policy expert Robert Jervis maintains that though th...

Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...