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Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...

In an illustrated discussion marking the launch of his book Kansas City Houses 1885–1938, local scholar Michael C. K...

University of South Carolina scholar F.K. Clementi examines the origins of the Holocaust, and looks beyond the rise of Adolf Hitler and German...

The University of Kansas’ John Tibbetts draws from 35 years of conversations with some of the world’s finest musicians in discussing...

Reihan Salam sees the United States’ immigration crisis as solvable. It requires … ahem, compromise. The son of Bangla...

We’re well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln the country lawyer, the principled statesman, the revered martyr. In a discussion of his new historical nov...

Valiant knights. Chaste virgins. Bawdy widows. Our notions of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages tend to come from Hollywood and the History Chan...

Architect Paul Helmer examines the classical design of Central Presbyterian Church and Grand Avenue Temple United Methodist C...

The Kansas Historical Society’s Donna Rae Pearson talks about the 12 Black women who were plaintiffs in the landmark – and now 70-year-old – Brown vs....

French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...