Sarah Smarsh’s new book offers three dozen essays that chronicle her upbringing in Kansas, her life as a freelance journalist ...

The stuffed warhorse is, of course, an icon of the nation’s Western expansion, one of the most beloved artifacts at the Kansas University Natural History ... of Capt. Myles Keogh, was badly ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) — State Library of Kansas, Kansas Center for the Book has selected two books for the 2024 Great Reads ...

As he began his research, he talked with Roy Bird, a local retired librarian and author of several Kansas history books, including as a co-author on "Things Ended and Things Begun: A History of ...

The bay, 925 pounds, standing 15 hands high with a small white star on his forehead, became the favorite mount for Captain Myles Keogh of the 7th Cavalry ... glass case at the University of Kansas ...

A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth", which was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times bestseller. The journalist and author from rural Kansas has ...

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A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine. By Gilbert Cruz In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. An inmate whose escape from a Kansas prison hidden in a dog crate became the subject of a book and TV movie has died behind bars. John Manard ...

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