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The Kansas City Public Library hosts A Conversation with Tobias Wolff, author of the Kansas City Big Read select...

Brian Daldorph presents Real Characters: The Writing Lifestyle Depicted in Old School on Wednesd...

Betty Ford is known for her battles with breast cancer and substance abuse. But perhaps even more than these struggles, says biograph...

For nearly 50 years Josephine Marcus Earp was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the legendary hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As an indep...

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Is True Grit’s Mattie Ross a genuine feminist hero or a merely a woman who mimics traditional masculinity? Panelists Brenda...

The tragedy of December 14, 2012 – 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members dying at the hands of a 20-year-old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut...

This is where technology has taken us: U.S. service members plotting and executing drone strikes half a world away, killing not only a faceless ene...

Alex Sutton, a veteran of three combat tours in Iraq, has been done with war for nearly a decade. But his fight is far from over. Dealing with&nbsp...

The documentary Real Boy tells the story of transgender teen Bennett Wallace, the struggle by his mother to accept his tr...