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Thrust into the nation’s highest office following Richard Nixon’s resignation, Gerald R. Ford faced the impossible task of achieving much in little...

There are few storytellers like old baseball scouts because, well, nobody collects stories like the guys who spend a lifetime crisscrossing America...

The pig is big in these parts. Both Missouri and Kansas rank among the nation’s top 10 pork-producing states, annually putting more than 2 million...

The year 2012 was a watershed for the Hollywood movie industry, producing the likes of Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables,...

From Kansas City’s signature Country Club Plaza to pristine shopping districts and neighborhoods across the country, J.C. Nichols’ imprint on the Amer...

The November general election will seat a Congress facing critical economic challenges. But analysts disagree on the role of government in the econ...

Progressive Henry Wallace ran for president in 1948 on a platform that advocated an end to the Cold War (he thought domestic fascism was more dange...

Established in 1857, Union Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in Kansas City. Buried there are early pioneers, veterans, and others who have le...

In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of historical events became increasingly popular—and increasingly grand—in Ireland. The...

Despite their country’s institutionalized prejudice, hundreds of thousands of African Americans fought in the U.S. military during World War I. The...