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Acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the first president of the United States in W...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Trudeau makes a special public appearance to celebrate the release of 40: A Doonesbury Re...

From June - September 1692, 19 people were hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Just in time for Halloween, historian...

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

American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...

Bill Stancil presents Rockhurst University: The First 100 Years, a lecture supplemented with numerous historical...

From bandits to gangsters, from kidnappers to gunslinging evangelists, Kansas City has proved to be a hotbed for criminals. In Kansas...

The classic children’s novel Robinson Crusoe bears little resemblance to the novel authored by Daniel DeFoe in 1719. Dec...

American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...

The Midwest Democracy Project hosts a forum exploring the question: What is the 21st century mission of our public schools? Parti...