History
Black Judge an Unsung Hero of Kansas City, Kansas
When Judge Isaac Franklin Bradley Sr. was born in Saline County, Missouri, he was considered property. By the time he died, his name had been etched next to the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois as a civil rights leader, lawyer, judge and entrepreneur.
Preserving Our Past: Kansas City Stories of Black History
In “Preserving Our Past: Kansas City Stories of Black History,” a new Kansas City PBS documentary compiled in honor of Black History Month, Flatland reporter Catherine Hoffman shares untold or unexamined stories of local Black history.
Clay County’s Colorful History Left Some (Land)marks
In 2019 restoration crews began work on a 200-year-old Clay County cabin. They daubed the cabin’s interior walls and stabilized its foundation, inspecting and replacing deteriorated hand-hewn logs. On one of them they noticed a charred spot where flames once had left their signature in the wood. The scorch mark was not a total surprise. …
Late to the Party: The Strange History of Liquor Laws in Kansas
Did you know happy hours as we know them were illegal in Kansas until 2011?
curiousKC | Vanderbilt Mansion Treasures Make Midland Theatre Space ‘Sexiest Lounge in KC’
Kansas City’s unlikely tie to the iconic New York City home has one curiousKC reader wondering how it all went down, way back in 1927.