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

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...

The world’s eyes were drawn in April to the iconic tower of Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial, site of the official centennial commemoration of our co...

It’s Lucile Bluford’s day. Officially. Bluford, for whom the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch...

Infamous characters and sensational incidents abounded in the Ozarks immediately after the Civil War and well into the 20th century. The mining dis...

The Library’s Script-in-Hand series hits the dusty trail as members of the Western Writers of America perform...

While battlefields were quiet, the nearly 21-year interwar period between World Wars I and II was hardly inconsequential. Particularly on the U.S....

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh...

Trade between the U.S. and China began in 1794 and the two future superpowers saw their first military engagement several decades later, when American...

The latter half of the 20th century saw a boom in the construction of arenas as cities recognized the value of multipurpose venues. That included K...