In many ways, Kansas City’s early history is that of a stereotypical frontier town. Native Americans, pioneers, and cowboys are indelibly linked to...

Commemorating Women’s History Month, University of Missouri-Kansas City social historian Sandra Enríquez identifies...

Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...

Authors Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein sit down with former Kansas City council member Jan Marcason...

Retired Kansas City attorney Michael Cronan discusses his book on the colorful life and career of James A. Reed, a Pendergast-backed...

Historian Eric Anderson discusses the tumultuous, yet formative, beginnings of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas....

In a discussion of his new book Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940, author...

Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...

The Library examines the history of the Kansas City chapter of the polarizing Black Panther Party and its founder, Pete O’Neal, starting with a screen...

When restaurateur Fred Harvey established his popular Harvey House restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1800s,...