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Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative mast...

Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...

Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...

In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...

For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...

During the Vietnam conflict, battles on the homefront went beyond anti-war protests. Activists gathered in support of many cultural movements: civi...