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Not only is Kansas City home to world-class art museums, outstanding performing arts venues, and some of the planet’s best barbecue, it also boasts...

The image of fierce, all-female Amazons — barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom — has end...

His approval rating low and his own party disenchanted, Harry Truman had the look of a one-term president — unlikely to win a return to office &...

Decades before women in the U.S. could vote, hold public positions, or choose from a full range of occupations, young women and girls in the Kansas...

The Islamic State, or ISIS, refers to its enemies as Roman crusaders, and the notion of the Western world imposing its will on the Middle East is o...

As the 2016 election season unfolded, it often seemed that moderates were difficult to find. In fact, today’s bitter partisanship encourages us to...

African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of...

In 1894, when women’s lives and choices were restricted and their influence was limited, a group of Kansas Citians answered a call to “stand shoulder...

While at sea in April and May 1945, immediately following his liberation from nearly three years of Japanese captivity, David L. Hardee put his exp...

Louise Nevelson is considered one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century, known for her pioneering assemblages and monumental...