Musician and entertainer Cody Wyoming has been a part of the local, underground music scene for more than 30 years. But he’s also a music historian an...

During the mid-19th century, a mass migration of pioneers traveled westward by wagon across rugged trails, wind-swept prairies, barren deserts, and fo...

Established in 1887, Kansas City Southern (KCS) started as an intercity belt railroad. It’s now a vital north-south rail link between the U.S. and Mex...

In the 1980s and ’90s, artists and creatives seeking affordable studio and gallery spaces began moving into old warehouse and storage buildings north...

The Library started with a single bookcase in 1873. Since then, it’s grown into a cultural institution that bolsters people’s welfare, inspires lifelo...

Drawing from her thesis A Kansas City Founder “Proud of His Position:” Race, Exploitation, and the Rise of William Gilliss, local historian and educat...

Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...

Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back on the 1957 space shot heard ’round the world: the Soviet...

Local attorney Gary Jenkins, a filmmaker, author and former Kansas City police detective, investigated mafia bombings and murders in the 1970s in the...