Although Kansas joined the Union as a free state, African Americans entering this new land looking for homes and livelihoods encountered a rigid co...

Sandra Moran’s first novel, Letters Never Sent, resonated deeply in the LGBT community when it was relea...

The United States remains the world’s pacesetter in science. The origins of many of its breakthroughs may surprise you, however. A sizable number o...

Established in 1857, Union Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in Kansas City. Buried there are early pioneers, veterans, and others who have le...

Despite their country’s institutionalized prejudice, hundreds of thousands of African Americans fought in the U.S. military during World War I. The...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most...

His approval rating low and his own party disenchanted, Harry Truman had the look of a one-term president — unlikely to win a return to office &...

Caitlin Doughty is out to change the way we deal with dying. Founder of the Order of the Good Death, a web forum promoting the ope...

Americans unfamiliar or perhaps unconcerned with the Islamic State — ISIS — snapped to attention with the group’s beheading of two jour...