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The slave Dred Scott claimed that his residence in a free state transformed him into a free man. When the Court decided otherwise, th...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper and captain Jimmy Nielsen for the launch of his new memoir...

The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and politica...

Historian Ethan S. Rafuse examines a tumultuous year in the history of the Army of the Potomac, when Gen. “Fighting” Joe Hooker took...

Steve Kraske of KCUR’s Up to Date moderates a panel discussion about Kansas City’s financial planning. Feat...

Ever get the feeling that Christmas has morphed into something it was never supposed to be? How did a celebration of joy, togetherness, l...

Was he an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer? An appeaser and isolationist? For all his public activities – financier, film producer, kingmak...

A specialist in the Atomic Age, Michael Scheibach examines how Americans in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s dealt with the threat of nuclea...

Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, author, politician, postmaster, and civic activist. But noted economist and Franklin biographer Mark Sko...