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In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail, historian Joy L. Poole examines the stories of five wives who...

While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou...

Today’s hyper-political sensitivity to U.S. Supreme Court appointments traces back to the only president elected from Missouri. Harry Truman revolu...

Harry S. Truman was scarcely prepared to assume the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945. He’d been vice president for...

University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham discusses his work unearthing several young T. rex fossils in the Hell Creek rocks...

Historian Ethan S. Rafuse examines a tumultuous year in the history of the Army of the Potomac, when Gen. “Fighting” Joe Hooker took...

Commemorating Women’s History Month, University of Missouri-Kansas City social historian Sandra Enríquez identifies...

In the latest installment of the Library’s Conflict and Crisis series, a panel of military historians and experts from the U....

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...