LAWRENCE, Kan. — Two area residents were among 4,450 candidates for degrees at the University of Kansas for spring 2008. Bevan Jean Graybill of Muskogee graduated with a Bachelor of Arts/Humanities.

After President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, more than 180,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Union Army, in regiments and battalions that often, unsurprisingly, drew the most thankless and unpleasant assignments, with li

Exhibition, quot Far from Home. quot Gallery hours 9 a.m. 5 p.m. Tuesday Saturday 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Sundays. Through July 13. Addresses the displacement of people in the global community as they relocate for economic, political, educational or familial reaso

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Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times.