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Hixon transformed the field of portrait photography in Kansas City and the surrounding region during a career that spanned more than seven decades...

Begun in 1942 to address labor needs in agriculture and the railroads, the U.S. government’s bracero program became the largest guest worker program i...

Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battl...

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A mother and son walk hand in hand through a makeshift refugee camp in northern Greece. Candidate Trump gets full-throated support from a young discip...

Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid is best known for her beaded tapestries, featuring visionary and surreal imagery, scenes of n...

A century and a half ago, trains hauling cattle and cowboys brought the real west from Amarillo, Texas, to Kansas City. Return trips carried a trove o...

Just a four-minute walk from Kansas City’s old First National Bank – now the home of the Central Library – some of the biggest names in American enter...

Rodolfo Marron III has emerged as one of the city’s most exciting young visual artists, his deeply personal work reflecting on his re...

Four young men in Baltimore share their grief after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. A family of Syrian refugees weeps in joy after stepping off...