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In his memoir Sometimes There Is A Void award-winning South African author Zakes Mda chronicles his yout...

Established in 2005, the Kansas City Fringe Festival has grown into a 10-day celebration of theater, visual arts, film, dance, and music. This year’s...

Kansas City Star sports reporter Blair Kerkhoff explains why the NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas City was instrument...

The Kansas City Sprit was in evidence with the 1900 construction of a new convention hall in just 90 days and in how the community has pulled together...

Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effec...

William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...

Bestowed on statesmen, preachers, artists, and activists, the Nobel Peace Prize is among the world’s most prestigious honors. And also among the mo...

After more than a decade of intimate economic relations, China and the United States have become deeply intertwined. Historian Zachary Kara...

When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the count...

In the new series Dateline: Washington with David Von Drehle, journalists covering the nation’s capital offer an insider’s look at...