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...

It has been a little more than 4½ years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election C...

In 1864, Confederate Gen. Sterling Price mounted a last-gasp raid into Missouri in hopes of capturing St. Louis and ultimately the state. The end o...

In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy New York tavern altered American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to...