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Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to t...

Janet Valentine of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses that increased prominence of women in America’s military – the historical...

Military historian Geoff Babb of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College examines the historical twists and turns of America’s military relati...

Micah W. Kubic, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, discusses his book about Freedom, Inc., and its more than half-cen...

Historian Jon Taylor of the University of Central Missouri examines the most consequential political marriage in our city’s and state...

Cowboy historian Jim Gray, executive director of the National Drovers Hall of Fame in Ellsworth, Kansas, recalls the early days of...

Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses one of the most frightful urban battles of World War...

In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s...

In a discussion of his book For All Children Everywhere, a comprehensive history of Kansas City’s renowned Children’s Mercy...

James Shipley, one of fewer than 200 surviving members of the famed, all-black World War II unit known as the Tuskegee Airmen, joins author Jeremy...