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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...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...

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 ¬...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...

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 enemy...

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 po...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R...

For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S...