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New York-area pianist/vocalist John Bauers portrays legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer (“One More for My Baby,” “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses”),...

In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...

A questionable court-martial ended Henry Ossian Flipper's military career in 1882—he'd be pardoned more than a century later—but it scarcely staine...

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh vie...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...

Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...

Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative mast...

This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860. The na...