History

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

Historic Elmwood Cemetery Honors Those Above and Below the Sod

By Brian Burnes | September 30, 2022

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.

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.

A Belated Lesson in the History of Indigenous People

By Bill Tammeus | September 25, 2022

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

The exterior of the historic Central United Methodist Church.

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

By Mary Sanchez | September 23, 2022

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.

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.

Inside David McCullough’s Relationship with the Truman Library

By Brian Burnes | September 22, 2022

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.