Faith healer? Fraud? Or both? The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resembled popular...

Start your MidAmeriCon II day at the Kansas City Public Library with a presentation by science fiction/fantasy authors Beth Cato and...

Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a m...

Two of the world’s leading writers of epic fantasy – Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small) and...

It's not just bullies in the schoolyard that should worry us. Charles Derber and Yale Magrass point to a larger, mor...

Jane Austen remains famous today for Pride and Prejudice and other novels in which she reflects on the life of the British land gentry at the end of t...

Many Americans see life in Cuba in black and white terms, as either a David-vs.-Goliath story of survival over nearly 50 years or constant oppression...

The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided. They have tro...

Derek Cressman has fought for more than 20 years to remove big money from politics, among other things seeking reversal of Citizens U...

Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer...