The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College returns to the Library to launch a new series on the Rise and Fall of Empires. Harry S. Laver reco...

National Trust for Historic Preservation President Carol Quillen discusses the importance of storytelling – rooted in historic places – to a healthy d...

More than 50 years after the death of the Man from Missouri, historian John Robert Greene reevaluates a major – and ultimately sca...

From its inception, Kansas City has been intricately tied to provisioning, hospitality, and good food. Culinary historian Andrea Broomfield examines h...

In his new book Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century, historian Fred E. Woods details the Mormon journey to and throu...

The role of women in Kansas City’s development is often overlooked. Kathy Krause, professor emerita of French at the University of Missouri-Kansas Cit...