Guy Gugliotta discusses his new book about the raising of the U.S. Capitol, a process steeped in irony. Even as the majestic struc...

James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

Landon Rowland discusses the achievements of 19th century railroad developer Arthur Stilwell, who forever changed the Kansas City...

Offering the keynote address for this year’s series on the American presidency, presidential scholar Robert Dallek examines why some...

Art educator Carol Inge Hockett examines how artists reacted to the values-shattering horrors of World War I with Dadism, an art...

Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warned that Communism was on the march. Historian Philip White...

Historian Shawn Leigh Alexander looks at the forgotten men and women who in the late 19th century took up the cause of civil right...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by actor Ro...

President Calvin Coolidge gets a bad rap, says author Amity Shlaes, who notes that under his leadership the economy grew at a rate...

Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effec...