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Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the major figures in America’s Progressive movement in the early 20th century. But key to his influence was the support...

Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...

She is no longer a household name, but during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration Frances Perkins was one of America’s most inf...

Steve McDowell and Rick Schladweiler of the architectural firm BNIM and Kansas City Ballet Executive Director...

In 1937 the German ocean liner St. Louis set sail from Hamburg to Cuba. Aboard were nearly 1,000 Jews hoping to escape the Nazis. But midw...

The 1869 killing of a bank cashier in Gallatin, Missouri, has long been considered the first in a long line of robberies by Jesse and Frank James. But...

Architect Todd Achelpohl of infrastructure solutions firm HNTB and Jonathan Kemper, president of the Kansas City...

Marketing studies have shown that, like other consumers, beer drinkers often make purchases based not just on taste, but often on the packaging an...

Architectural historian & preservation consultant Cydney Millstein examines how the TWA Headquarters Building at 18th and Main street...