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African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of al...

As the 2016 election season unfolded, it often seemed that moderates were difficult to find. In fact, today’s bitter partisanship encourages us to den...

Decades before women in the U.S. could vote, hold public positions, or choose from a full range of occupations, young women and girls in the Kansas Ci...

Hanging in the balance as the nation elected a new president was a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created the previous February, when Justice Antonin Scal...

 Emanuel Leutze’s iconic painting of George Washington crossing the icy Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 might have been a bit dramatized (...

As it did throughout America, World War II affected every facet of life in Franklin County, Kansas, from 1941-45. The experience there was captured by...

While some cities owe their existence to lumber, oil, or steel, Kansas City is arguably – or perhaps not so arguably – built on food.  ...

In 1966 – three years before New York’s Stonewall riots – Kansas City was the scene of the first national gathering of gay rights groups. From that me...

The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the late...

Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...