The 1964 murder of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese has become a defining moment in American social history. Early reporting described h...

The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history. Join us...

Decades before Oprah, Dr. Phil, and today’s innumerable gurus peddling surefire plans for bettering ourselves, Missourian Dale Carnegie...

Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be...

Kansas City’s River Market area was known in the 1970s as River Quay, a redeveloped home to restaurants and bohemian shops—and site of a viol...

John B. Judis, senior editor at The New Republic, examines the half-century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs&mda...

Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submar...

Veteran re-enactor Charles Everett Pace brings his one man show to Kansas City to portray prominent abolitionist and social reform...

Murderers. Mob bosses. Anarchists. Bootleggers. Thieves. They’ve all found a home at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, regarded for man...

When a Serbian assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, there was nothing to suggest the event would lead to a horrific world war....