Missouri Valley Sundays

July 17, 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse that killed 114 people and injured 216. Kansa...

The first-ever meeting of a national coalition of lesbian and gay leaders took place in Kansas City in 1966. What preceded such activism? How...

Organized crime formed part of the political, economic, and social fabric of Kansas City for much of the 20th century; and the mob’s power was never g...

Diane Mutti Burke, an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, discusses he...

Bill Stancil presents Rockhurst University: The First 100 Years, a lecture supplemented with numerous historical...

Don Lambert discusses the efforts of 40 men and women whose so-called Topeka Constitution marked a milestone on the road Kansas w...

Kenneth H. Winn tells the seldom-heard story of Indian agent George Sibley and Ellen Lorr, whose failure to marry touche...

Master storyteller Gladys Coggswell shares inspirational tales and “down-home” stories about all walks of African-American life...

Twyla Dell discusses the rapid rise of Kansas City in its first 100 years and the role that energy played in its development on Sunday, January 17, at...

Before Kansas City developed a jazz scene, ragtime was the music of choice. Many important ragtime composers hailed from Kansas City, which wa...