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Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...

Florida State University’s Wayne Wiegand, widely considered the “dean of American library historians,” examines an overlooked chapter in our na...

In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...

Retired Canadian Army Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire discusses his attempt to end the coerced recruitment and use of children as soldiers, a...

Though St. Louis has faced many trials and tribulations since its founding in 1764, no point in its history is remembered more for tragedy than 184...

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Sheila Brooks, a Kansas City native and former TV personality who now heads the Washington, D.C.-based SRB Communications, discusses...

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Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...

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