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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...

Military historian Terry Beckenbaugh examines the failed 1863 attack on the Confederacy’s Fort Wagner on Charleston Harbor – an in...

As the man behind Communism, Karl Marx has been revered as a prophet and blamed for some of the darkest atrocities of modern times. In his new biograp...

Built in 1942 in Johnson County, Kansas, the Sunflower Ordnance Works quickly became the world’s largest producer of rocket propellant, an essentia...

Author Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City i...

President Calvin Coolidge gets a bad rap, says author Amity Shlaes, who notes that under his leadership the economy grew at a rate...

Historian Shawn Leigh Alexander looks at the forgotten men and women who in the late 19th century took up the cause of civil right...

Following the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848, the border between the two countries remained in flux, a flexible barrier that restricte...

Artist Glen Hansen presents and discusses the more than three dozen drawings and paintings that make up...