From Walnut Hill to Dunford Place: The Story of a Surviving Country Estate
Dunford Place is being considered for the Kansas City Register of Historic Places. “I just felt it should be protected,”
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Hoffa’s Connection: The story of Sylvia Pagano: The Kansas City Girl at the center of the mafia’s alliance with the Teamsters Union
Hoffa’s Connection follows the path of North End native Sylvia Pagano and her family from their modest days living in Kansas City’s North End through her strategic rise to power.
South KC author pens novel set during the Border Wars
“As I was learning about the conflict, I’d look out across the land, and think ‘What happened here?’ This wasn’t just a peaceful river running through here.”
America’s first female sheriff Minnie Mae Talbott and the killer who changed history
Minnie Mae’s story is deeply entwined in a heinous crime with deep connections to Kansas City’s most notorious criminals.
Among the Wyandot: Hiram Northrup, merchant and banker of both Kansas Cities
“His biography is so intimately associated with the growth and development of Kansas City and the territory west of it that it has become part of the history of the great southwest.”
Where the bluffs once stood: The Shannons of early Kansas City
“A marked fatality has followed the Shannon brothers – rapidly rising to fortune ……now all dead within a brief period. Truly life is uncertain.”
Pearl Street Hill, the neighborhood Kansas City Erased
There are no photos to truly show its grandeur, but by piecing together records and stories from the past, we are able to travel up Pearl Hill and meet some of its finest residents.
Born to Sing: The Story of Kansas City’s Opera Star Alice Nielsen
“As long as there were places to sing, audiences to applaud, critics to approve, I sang for dollars, for pennies, for love. But whatever the reward, I sang.”
Habits on the Hill: How the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet helped educate a growing Kansas City
The story of St. Teresa’s Academy showcases the tenacity of an early Catholic priest, an order of nuns and how the institution they founded successfully grew from a small building into a suburban campus.
Barbers, Business and Ballots: The Rise of the Jordan Family (Part 2)
From barber chairs to ballot boxes, the Jordan’s proved that political power in this city was not easily claimed.
May Milling Co., Grandview’s oldest business, closes
“I’m going to retire and nobody wants to run it. So, it’s time.”
A leading Black family in the face of adversity: The legacy of the Jordans (Part 1)
The first Black US deputy marshal, appointed by a former Confederate general, was related to the Leon Jordan who graced headlines during the Civil Rights movement in Kansas City.
“Church Hill,” one of Kansas City’s first Black communities
19th century neighborhood was home to school and churches catering to African Americans
Our Hero Was: The myth, the man, and the making of Kansas City’s Milt McGee
Meet the trailblazing 12th mayor of Kansas City
Fry and Mobillion McGee worked to change the trajectory of our history
Fraudulent elections. Attempts to move state borders. These brothers shaped KC in unbelievable ways.