Missouri Valley Sundays

Journalist and local historian Cindy Higgins presents an illustrated talk about the brewers and breweries of early Kansas, their role in fostering a s...

In July 1974, an estimated 100,000 members—and probably more—of the Woodstock generation descended on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in...

The federal government has been keeping tabs on foreign visitors to these shores for decades. In 1940 the Immigration and Naturalization Service be...

By the time of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the land and people of western Missouri had suffered as much as any during the Civil War. T...

Kansas mills, located literally in the breadbasket of America, produced an enormous quantity of flour in an era when women routinely baked their fa...

Bordered by rugged cliffs and the Missouri and Kansas rivers, the West Bottoms provided the spark for a rugged cowtown to become an urban metropoli...

Richard L. Berkley once said, “I like meeting people.” Before, during, and after his record three-term tenure as Kansas City’s mayor...

How did Kansas City miraculously transform itself from “the filthiest city in the United States” in the 19th century to the clean, well-planned emb...

George Creel, the onetime head of President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information, recalled in his memoir “how we advertised America.” B...

Although Kansas joined the Union as a free state, African Americans entering this new land looking for homes and livelihoods encountered a rigid co...