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Despite a Union advantage in men and resources, the Confederates dominated in the early months of the Civil War. Only one federal general seemed to ha...

The 1964 murder of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese has become a defining moment in American social history. Early reporting described h...

The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history. Join us...

After spending the past two weeks as local and national celebrities — saluted on the editorial page of The Kansas City Star and celebra...

Decades before Oprah, Dr. Phil, and today’s innumerable gurus peddling surefire plans for bettering ourselves, Missourian Dale Carnegie...

Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Indepen...

John B. Judis, senior editor at The New Republic, examines the half-century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs&mda...

Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submar...

Veteran re-enactor Charles Everett Pace brings his one man show to Kansas City to portray prominent abolitionist and social reform...

Murderers. Mob bosses. Anarchists. Bootleggers. Thieves. They’ve all found a home at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, regarded for man...