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A questionable court-martial ended Henry Ossian Flipper's military career in 1882—he'd be pardoned more than a century later—but it scarcely staine...

Art historian Joan Stack explores how two 1845 paintings by Missouri artist and politician George Caleb Bingham may have reflected anxiety about Pr...

Patrick Henry is a largely forgotten founding father today, his accomplishments overshadowed by his oratory. Historian Jon Kukla, former director of t...

Author Ed Darack examines the downing of an Army helicopter in Afghanistan six years ago, killing all 38 aboard, in a discussion of h...

Preservationist Bradley Wolf, KC’s historic preservation officer for more than 17 years, discusses a recently released second edition...

Artist and filmmaker Brian Hawkins examines our state’s mostly east-side French Creole community – specifically its rich collection of folktale...

Retired FBI agent William Ouseley joins Jonathan Bender, an editor for KCPT - Kansas City PBS, in discussing Kansas City’s gangland past...

Military historian Louis DiMarco of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses Operation Torch, the bold U.S.-British invasion o...

In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...

In 1966 – three years before New York’s Stonewall riots – Kansas City was the scene of the first national gathering of gay rights groups. From that me...