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Historic Elmwood Cemetery Honors Those Above and Below the Sod

By | September 30, 2022 |

Visitors to Elmwood Cemetery can examine thousands of grave markers and monuments.

Kansas City’s historic Elmwood Cemetery’s 150th anniversary will be celebrated from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the cemetery at 4900 E. Truman Road.

A Belated Lesson in the History of Indigenous People

By | September 25, 2022 |

This “land acknowledgment” sign at Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City names the Indigenous tribes that consider the land on which the church sits as ancestral territory.

People of faith are belatedly coming to grips with their troubled history with Indigenous People.

Historic Central United Methodist Church Reflects on its Complex Past as it Prepares to Close

By | September 23, 2022 |

The exterior of the historic Central United Methodist Church.

The historic Central United Methodist Church is reflecting on its complex past as it prepares to close. The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection will reopen the church in December.

Inside David McCullough’s Relationship with the Truman Library

By | September 22, 2022 |

David McCullough (at right), when not in the Truman Library research room, would seek out then-living Harry Truman contemporaries across the Kansas City area for interviews.

Here’s the inside story of how Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough helped raise the profile of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum.