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How can images of the private and vulnerable become monumental? How can they inspire? Casey Lee Holden and Nelson Pereira...

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

Michael Grauer of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, discusses the effort by British investors to cash in on American cattle in...

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...

The Central Library provides a perfect family-friendly starting point on First Friday. Among the offerings: the exhibit Cattle, Cowboys, and Cultur...

West Texas A&M University’s Amy Von Lintel, co-creator of the Library exhibit Cattle, Cowboys, and Culture, looks at the seedier side of...

Fifty years to the day after the launch of the Tet Offensive of 1968, Bud Meador of the U.S. Army General Command and Staff College examines...

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

In a discussion of his new book, former Kansas City Star columnist and editorial board member Lewis Diuguid pays tribute to...

Gates Brown of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses the eventful 10-day meeting during World War II in which Franklin Roosevelt a...