Local history
Know Your KC History: Graduation Music, Part 1 (The Teacher)
On June 12, 1925, the lives of three men came together in a way that challenged the way things had always been in Kansas City. Find out how a teacher, a student, and a reporter swung a hammer at the strong wall of ethnic tradition in KC.
Batter Up: New Exhibit Explores KC's Baseball History
As All-Star fever rushes over Kansas City, the Library is presenting a rich look into KC’s 146-year baseball history in the exhibit Amateurs to All-Stars: The Rise of Baseball in Kansas City, open through the 2012 World Series at the Central Library. Before you head down to the Library, peek at a few photo highlights.
“These Big Halls, When They Take Fire, Burn Like Hayricks” - Part Two
One of the wind’s main targets as it heaved the fiery embers away from Convention Hall was the Second Presbyterian Church that occupied the land across the street. The first small flame was seen in the steeple...
“These Big Halls, When They Take Fire, Burn Like Hayricks”
In half an hour it was pretty much all over—except for the putting out, the cleaning up, and the starting over. The Rev. Dr. Hermon D. Jenkins had been pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church since 1895, nearly five years...
Putting KC History on the Virtual Map
The Missouri Valley Special Collections’ digital gallery at kchistory.org is already a wonderful repository of the people, places, and stories that make up our city’s past. Now, that collection has even more of a worldwide reach, thanks to Historypin.
