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KCUR 89.3Artist Luis Quintanilla fled the Spanish Civil War to escape persecution, but most of his work was destroyed. Today, one of his two remaining murals sits in an otherwise ordinary corner of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Newly restored, Quintanilla’s bizarre and enthralling masterpiece stands as a testament to immigrants and the danger of authoritarianism. -
Rebecca Smith/KBIAThe Mizzou Tigers and the Kansas Jayhawks are set to take the field on Saturday for the first time since 2011.
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A Kansas City writer is making a film about the disability rights law that paved the way for the ADAIn 1977, Judy Heumann led a 26-day occupation of a federal building that pressured the government to enforce a key civil rights law known as Section 504. Decades later, as the Missouri and Kansas attorneys general try to weaken those protections, activists are putting up another fight. -
Signed 35 years ago this month, the ADA was the world’s first comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities — guaranteeing equal opportunity in public accommodations, employment, and more. But it likely wouldn't have passed without the relentless pressure of grassroots activists and Kansas Republican Bob Dole. -
Barbecue is as American as apple pie — and a huge part of Kansas City's identity — but the origins of the word "barbecue" is in the Caribbean. -
Kansas City será la ciudad más pequeña de Norteamérica en ser anfitrión de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026. Pero es posible que no hubiera adoptado este deporte en absoluto, de no ser por el esfuerzo de los primeros inmigrantes que lucharon por este deporte, incluso antes de que existieran los campos de fútbol. -
Kansas City will be the smallest city in North America to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But it may not have embraced the sport at all, if not for the efforts of early immigrants who fought for the beautiful game — before there were even soccer fields to play on.
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Gay rights activism at the University of Kansas was led in the 1970s by the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front, but it took 10 years and a lawsuit for the student group to gain official recognition. Now, Katherine Rose-Mockry, retired director of KU’s Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity, has pieced that history together. -
A University of Kansas historian is looking for answers to a mystery that's nearly a century old. Could DNA tests shed new light on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case? -
An important prop from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" is now on temporary display at the Oz Museum in Wamego, Kansas. -
Uniting more than 200 sites across eastern Kansas and western Missouri, Freedom's Frontier preserves the story of the border war and the settlement of the western frontier. But the Trump administration has blocked funding for National Heritage Areas. -
Using the site "Find a Grave," volunteers search, photograph and upload grave markers of both the famous and the forgotten. One Kansas City-area genealogist calls them "the glue that holds genealogy research together." -
The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signs nationwide asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history. One such sign was being installed at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in Missouri, a major Civil War site. -
Jim the Wonder Dog gained fame for his alleged ability to predict the future and understand commands in multiple languages. A museum in Marshall, Missouri, dedicated to the arcane canine will host costume, trick, and look-alike contests this weekend to celebrate.
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Confederate monuments have been coming down around the country, including the one formerly on Ward Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri. But, with the current… -
El Dean Holthus knows what people might think of a town like Smith Center, Kansas.At nearly the exact geographic center of the contiguous United States,… -
On a windswept hillside in Leavenworth County is a weather-worn wooden church that’s been there for nearly 150 years. For more than a century, Little… -
Did Nazis fall in love?Of course they did, though it may be hard to associate the idea of that emotion with a society that committed human atrocities. But… -
An ancient battle, an eager teenager and a small iron ball have helped a Kansas archaeologist rediscover a lost Native American city, one that may have… -
In a tiny plane over the Amazon rainforest, Kansas City writer Candice Millard plummeted to what she was sure would be her death.She was trying to figure… -
There’s only one train line left in Concordia, Kansas (population just over 5,000), and it hauls grain. But more than a hundred years ago there were four… -
On a bitterly cold afternoon early this winter, Patrick Overton was standing outside the historic Federated Church of Arrow Rock, Missouri, greeting… -
Many people pass by the unmarked statue of a woman at 52nd Street and Brookside Boulevard, every day perhaps without ever noticing the bird shenanigans… -
As part of events marking the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the city of Mission, Kansas, hosted a memorial at the Sylvester…
