On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces attacked Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, ending an excruciating period of uncert...

Local historian Joelouis Mattox of the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center in Kansas City presents the story of the United S...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with George Caleb Bingham, whose paintings of Missouri and the American frontier have...

Eric Rauchway, professor of history at the University of California - Davis, presents How Well Did the New Deal Work?...

John Kuehn of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses Admiral...

An expert in the field of contemporary cultural studies, Susan Bordo explains how society’s perception of beauty has changed over...

Author and historian Sir Max Hastings presents a talk based on his book Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45....

Historians Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel and Marilyn S. Blackwell discuss their new biography of Clarina Howar...

During the 2003 looting of Iraq’s National Museum some 15,000 priceless objects dating back to ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia were damaged or stol...

Ken Gormley, dean of the Duquesne University School of Law, discusses one of the most polarizing political scandals in American history, the investiga...