Missouri Valley Sundays

Twyla Dell discusses the rapid rise of Kansas City in its first 100 years and the role that energy played in its development on Sunday, January 17, at...

Before Kansas City developed a jazz scene, ragtime was the music of choice. Many important ragtime composers hailed from Kansas City, which wa...

Investigative journalist Richard Serrano tells the story of his grandfather’s murder and its cover-up—with links to politic...

The Lewis & Clark Expedition paused at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers for three days on its way west in 1804 – longer than...

Comprised largely of free-state sympathizers, the German community of Concordia was located in Lafayette County, which contained more slaves tha...

In 1917, as the U.S. entered World War I, Isaac Katz turned a challenge into an opportunity. A wartime decree prohibited stores from staying ope...

In 1838, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issued the "Order of Extermination" that ordered the killing or removal of Mormons residing in Missouri&...

From its start in 1857, the Quindaro township—in present-day Wyandotte County—was an unabashedly free-state community surrounded by...

p>Renowned Kansas City artist Thomas Hart Benton produced drawings that ranged from detailed nature studies to spontaneous gestural...

The influence of the Missouri River on the urban development that first started along its banks goes beyond infrastructure and extends to the soci...