The war experience in Vietnam varied greatly, depending on when and where you served. A panel of military veterans, convened by the U.S. Army Command...

Preservationist Bradley Wolf, KC’s historic preservation officer for more than 17 years, discusses a recently released second edition...

Kansas City native “Cowboy Mike” Grauer, associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of art and Western heritage at the Pan...

Author Ed Darack examines the downing of an Army helicopter in Afghanistan six years ago, killing all 38 aboard, in a discussion of h...

Folklorist and historian Adam Miller recalls the frontier-life origins of the folk music of Kansas and Missouri. A singer and autohar...

Patrick Henry is a largely forgotten founding father today, his accomplishments overshadowed by his oratory. Historian Jon Kukla, former director of t...

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...