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In the third season of the Script-in-Hand series of stage performances, the Kansas City Public Library and Metropolitan E...

To commemorate the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth, historian Michael Schaller chronicles the life of one of America’s most notable and successful...

The Library kicks off its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and launches more than six months of...

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special...

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special...

This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860. The na...

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh vie...

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...

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