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On exsiccatae, xylotheks, lepidochromes, and other rare books and collections that incorporate actual biological and botanical specimens.

The League of Women Voters of Lawrence Count invites the public to participate in its community discussion of the book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by historian

“What NBC has done is they’ve invited into what should be a normal framework, someone who doesn’t believe that that framework should exist at all,” Timothy Snyder said.

"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century," provides much food for thought about 21st Century America, too. Especially because it appears an authoritarian nationalist will be leading a major-party presidential ticket in an election thats less than eight months away.

Biden: Voters must understand that "democracy is still America’s sacred cause ... and it’s what the 2024 election is all about.”

A new project led by Timothy Snyder explores the history of Ukrainian lands and peoples by connecting them to global and regional developments over times.

What works of literature should inform your twenties? There is no answer, of course, but we have some opinions.

Bob McKillop’s Oct. 3 letter on the dangers of not understanding history’s lessons, “We need to take threat to democracy very seriously,” advises a reading of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by William Shirer. There is a shorter, more easily understood and recent publication, titled “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth […]

A defining feature of a federal democracy is division of power. It is this principle that makes the exercise of power a remit of an elected head and not of nominal heads like presidents, governors and lieutenant governors.

Human history is a story of forgotten lessons. Despite the catastrophic collapse of European democracy in the 1930s, it appears that the tale of the twentieth century – in which citizens, cowed [...]