Includes front and back covers, editorial board, table of contents, and note from the editor, from Lucerna, vol. 1, no. 1 (2006), UMKC's Honors Undergraduate Journal....

Includes front and back covers, editorial board, table of contents, Editor and Author Biographies, Honorable Mentions, and note from the editor, from Lucerna, vol. 5, no. 1 (2010), UMKC's Honors Undergraduate Journal....

Includes front and back covers, editorial board, table of contents, and note from the editor, from Lucerna, vol. 2, no. 1 (2007), UMKC's Honors Undergraduate Journal....

Includes front and back covers, editorial board, table of contents, Editor and Author Biographies, Honorable Mentions, and note from the editor, from Lucerna, vol. 4, no. 1 (2009), UMKC's Honors Undergraduate Journal....

Includes front cover, editorial board, table of contents, Editor and Author Biographies, and note from the editor, from Lucerna, vol. 8, no. 1...

Includes front cover, editorial board, table of contents, Editor and Author Biographies, and note from the editor, from Lucerna, vol. 7, no. 1...

Music creates a window into the soul and a pathway into the heart. It does not find its home in a certain race, gender, or culture; instead it tells a story that creates a change in every person it encounters. At twenty ...

Once upon a time in eighteenth-century Sweden, French language theatre was the main type of theatre that you could find. To the unsuspecting drama enthusiast, the idea of French theatre in Sweden is strange. However, ...

Women serving in the military are a growing demographic amongst those who seek medical assistance from the Veterans Association (VA). In recent years, the VA has reconstructed its facilities to accommodate women and ...

Louis Gerteis, a Civil War historian, recalls a common image that Americans had of Germans in the mid-19th century: that of a lager-drinking, Sabbath-breaking, and tenaciously proud group of people (74). While there may ...

A sense of mystery fills Shakespeare’s sonnets, mysteries that coax us into exploring dead ends, much like a Siren lures sailors to their rapturous, albeit vicious, deaths. A few of these tantalizing mysteries are: who ...

It might seem strange to group the words of Thomas Jefferson and Booker T. Washington together in the same context. Nearly a century separated the two men and they came from vastly different social and racial backgrounds. ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. It is estimated that approximately 600,000 people die each year from ...

In recent years, the political climate in the United States has become increasingly polarized between the Democratic and Republican parties. This is seen most recently with the shutdown of the United States government, ...