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Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by local actor...

There was no greater boon to Kansas City’s early development than the opening of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869. Designed by civil engineer Octave Chanut...

The Library’s long, popular partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth resumes with the first in a new serie...

Despite a Union advantage in men and resources, the Confederates dominated in the early months of the Civil War. Only one federal general seemed to ha...

Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submarine...

The model for fairly selecting judges across much of our country is known as the Missouri Plan, born some 80 years ago in response to the political...

How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...

One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...

It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...