Historian Jeff Broadwater argues that no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth pr...

Author Brandon G. Kinney explores the complex series of events that led to the brief but bloody Mormon War of 1838...

Flamboyant, confident, and controversial, Edith Bolling Wilson was not your traditional First Lady. After her husband, Woodrow Wilson, suffered a debi...

Author Max Holland delves into the enigma that is Mark Felt (1913-2008), the FBI official who as the mysterious Deep Throat shared...

Ethan S. Rafuse of the military history department of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses t...

Historian Robert Rydell describes how world’s fairs inspired and promoted innovations in architecture, the arts, music, science, and...

Biographer Douglas Brinkley looks at the life and career of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, the St. Joseph native who became the most tr...

On the eve of the 136th anniversary of the famous “Last Stand,” retired National Park Service Superintendent Paul L. Hedren asks: Was...

Historian Barry Strauss delves into the personalities and methodologies of Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar, three generals of the...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Willa Cather, portrayed by Jan Chapman...