African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of...

Not far from where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in 2014 is the headquarters of Emerson Electric, a Fortune 5...

As the 2016 election season unfolded, it often seemed that moderates were difficult to find. In fact, today’s bitter partisanship encourages us to...

The Islamic State, or ISIS, refers to its enemies as Roman crusaders, and the notion of the Western world imposing its will on the Middle East is o...

Decades before women in the U.S. could vote, hold public positions, or choose from a full range of occupations, young women and girls in the Kansas...

The morning of December 7, 1941, remains burned in Dorinda Nicholson’s memory. Japanese bombers swooped so low over her home near the tip of Hawaii...

 Emanuel Leutze’s iconic painting of George Washington crossing the icy Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 might have been a bit dramatized (...

The date that President Franklin Roosevelt said “will live in infamy” – December 7, 1941 – indeed endures as an American milepost. Seventy-five...

As it did throughout America, World War II affected every facet of life in Franklin County, Kansas, from 1941-45. The experience there was captured by...

While some cities owe their existence to lumber, oil, or steel, Kansas City is arguably – or perhaps not so arguably – built on food. From its...