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

The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians...

Kansas City’s River Market area was known in the 1970s as River Quay, a redeveloped home to restaurants and bohemian shops—and site of a viol...

Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. The Bard goes to boarding school in She’s the Man (PG-13, 75 min.,...

Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...

Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. He arrived...

Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser looks at joblessness among “prime age” men between 25 and 54 and the public policies he says are cr...

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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...