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Fashion changed forever on November 28, 1973, when a team of top U.S. designers—including Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass, and Anne Klein—faced off on t...

Dwight Eisenhower was a man of simple tastes but decisive action. Behind the dry smile was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, an attribute—...

The Kansas City Call and its longtime editor and publisher, Lucile Bluford, epitomized the role of the African American press in the civil...

The relationship is clear: The more books a family owns, the greater the educational gains are for children. Mariah Evans, a...

The Kansas City Royals were on their way to a fourth 100-loss season in five years when Dayton Moore took over as general manager...

Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl...

LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel—about a black female journalist escaping the early-1900s Jim Crow laws of the South a...

Sifting through the stacks of her local library in Hamburg, Germany, Jennifer Teege happened upon a book that first fascinated and...

For Abraham Lincoln, the road to the future always began in the past – with the Founding Fathers, who inspired him to take up public life, showed him...

Women comprise about half of the U.S. labor force, including half of all professional and management positions. But they account for fewer than 15...