Harry S. Truman’s relationship with Canada has received limited attention from historians. But the 33rd president’s appreciation for our “good neig...

The latest installment of the Library’s Emmy Award-winning series, Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III, spotlights one of t...

Even as they were laying the framework for a new country, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and many of America’s other Founding Fathers were te...

Richard L. Berkley once said, “I like meeting people.” Before, during, and after his record three-term tenure as Kansas City’s mayor...

Even before Kansas became a state, Kansans wanted a university. What no one knew in territorial days or in the earliest years of statehood —...

Nobody knows more about the four-legged star of Groundhog Day than Kenneth Armitage. An emeritus professor of behavioral eco...

The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. It is true that they pillag...

How did Kansas City miraculously transform itself from “the filthiest city in the United States” in the 19th century to the clean, well-planned emb...

Behind Batman stood Alfred. Behind James Bond stood Q. And behind some of the most influential figures of the past century, from presidents to dipl...