The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians...

In 1911 art-minded Missourians hired the nation’s leading artists to decorate the new Missouri statehouse, and the works they created were consider...

Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in...

The 1940 U.S. Census revealed that Missouri had 3.8 million residents, there were 1.8 million Kansans, and Kansas City, Missouri, was home to 400,0...

Cornell University historian Fredrik Logevall discusses the origins of America’s least popular war, beginning with the 1919 Versai...

Seemingly austere and reportedly passive in the face of a national economic calamity, Herbert Hoover is somewhat of a political orphan. But biograp...

Civil War battlefields stubbornly conceal their secrets and their archaeology remains a buried, largely untapped source of historical information....

Margot McMillen, author of The Golden Lane, explores how a protest by thousands of women at the 1916 Democratic National Con...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with William Clarke Quantrill, portrayed by...

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