Biographer James Grant discusses his new portrait of late nineteenth-century Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives...

On the evening of May 20, 1957, an F-5 tornado tore into the communities of Ottawa and Spring Hill, Kansas, and Martin City, Grandview, Hickman Mil...

Columnist and political commentator John Avlon discusses his new book Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Colu...

Already an established artist of worldwide fame, Missouri artist Thomas Hart Benton was a natural choice for the Limited Editions Club’s illustrate...

Esther Schor discusses her book about the life of Emma Lazarus, the iconoclastic 19th century poet and activist whos...

The Sunshine Safety Lamp Company of Kansas City was a thriving business a century ago when many homes, outbuildings, and businesses w...

Terry Beckenbaugh of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the first Civil War battle fought west of...

No event in American history was more pivotal — or more contested — than the decision by Congress to declare independence in July 1776. Even months af...

The Plaza Branch concludes its annual Kansas City Architectures series, which in recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War focused on an...

Often referred to as eight years of peace and prosperity, the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61) was in fact an era of great s...