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...

Sixty-one years after the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till helped ignite the civil rights movement, cable television network HBO has begun...

Photographer Yunghi Kim has trained her lens on some of the world’s most notable events of the past three decades, including the raci...

The University of Missouri – roiled in the past year by racial tensions and protests – was central to a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling on desegregat...

In 1966 – three years before New York’s Stonewall riots – Kansas City was the scene of the first national gathering of gay rights groups. From that...