Jane Austen remains famous today for Pride and Prejudice and other novels in which she reflects on the life of the British land gentry at the end o...

Many Americans see life in Cuba in black and white terms, as either a David-vs.-Goliath story of survival over nearly 50 years or constant oppressi...

Michael S. Neiberg, a history professor and Chair of War Studies at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, goes inside...

This time nearly a century ago, Kansas City was approaching what local historian Joelouis Mattox calls the "Gloomy Years" – a nearly...

The 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City was historic – the last major U.S. political convention in which the presidential nomination wa...

Henry F Hoit designed many of Kansas City’s most iconic commercial and residential buildings, including the Kansas City Power & Light Building, th...

The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided. They ha...

Elmer Boillot and Jesse Lauck designed houses in the Coleman Highlands, Sunset Hills and Country Club District neighborhoods, including The Walnuts. T...

Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’...

When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a ra...