Twenty years ago James B. Steele co-authored America: What Went Wrong, which argued that the middle class was shrinking,...

Representatives of the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners delve into the history of the Republican and Democratic partie...

Bingham (1811-1879) - portrayed by actor Robert Gibby Brand - returns for the Library's popular Meet the Past series...

Local historian Joelouis Mattox discusses the history of Prospect Avenue and the life of one of the surrounding community’s leadin...

In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties? Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr....

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Kansas City Star founder William Rockhill Nelso...

Wilburn Stancil discusses the King James Bible, of which it has been written: “If everything else in our language should perish, it a...

Since his first celluloid depiction in 1908, Jesse James has been the subject of more than 40 films and has been portrayed by the likes of Tyrone P...

How could a president have won a war and lost a re-election? For George H.W. Bush, being Commander-in-Chief during Desert Storm was not enough....

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with James Naismith, portrayed by Bill Worle...