Time magazine theater critic Richard Zoglin grew up watching Bob Hope’s movies and followed the comedian’s rise to multim...

The Library launches a new series, Real/Modern: KC, that takes a humorous, opinionated, intimate, and informative look at the mode...

The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....

The HEAR Now Festival—the audio equivalent of a film festival—returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all its...

Program: 6:30 p.m. • Reception FollowsOn the eve of the annual West 18th Street Fashion Show, Kansas City’s fashion industr...

Revolutions historically have come in waves, and the world appears to be riding one now – from the Arab Spring to anti-austerity protests in Greece to...

One of the grandest experiments of American urban planning, the Country Club District, lies tucked in the heart of Kansas City. Initiated in 1905,...

At the height of World War II, the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee—then known only as the Clinton Engineering Works—boasted 75,000 people...

The federal government has been keeping tabs on foreign visitors to these shores for decades. In 1940 the Immigration and Naturalization Service be...

A growing number of well-known companies including Google, Facebook, Intel, eBay, and LinkedIn have this much in common: They were founded or co-fo...