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No other resident of Kansas City, past or present, has achieved the worldwide fame of Walt Disney. He created the animated Mickey Mouse and establi...

Was the December 29, 1890, massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, an act of war? U.S. government officials deemed it such. Or was the killing of s...

Efforts to combat blight and “renew” Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, took off after the end of World War II, but the results were m...

As part of a yearlong, statewide Missouri Latinos initiative, the Kansas City Public Library is offering an array of special programming. T...

The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is more than a place or a terrorist group. It is a set of ideas rooted in centuries-old beliefs and wrapped...

Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...

Until the late 18th century, Shakespeare’s works were known in America only on the page – and not the stage. Felicia Hardison Londré...

They’re artifacts, nearly 400 years old, and only 233 are known to have survived to today. But what else has driven collectors to pay as much as $6 mi...

His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...

When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a ra...