Search the Library

The images of the military destruction suffered on December 7, 1941, and the words that followed by President Franklin Roosevelt have been seared i...

Arguments may ensue on the merits of individual barbecue joints, but no one disputes the extent that the “culture” of B-B-Q has helped define every...

Richard B. Frank examines the new international scholarship on the first five years of China’s “War of Resistance” against Japan from...

Long viewed as unjust and mercenary, the Mexican-American War allowed the U.S. to seize control of vast expanses of the Southwest, paved the way for t...

As the Kansas City Board of Trade prepares to move to Chicago, its CEO Michael Braude traces the history, development, and economic i...

Purdue University historian Randy Roberts discusses the iconic 1944 football game between the undefeated cadets of West Point and the...

Jennifer Phegley, chair of the Department of English at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, examines how many of our modern...

The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and politica...

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

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