October 21, 2021 Columns, Culture Watch, News
No matter which major party won America’s presidential election in 1920, the country was destined for another chief executive from Ohio. Both major party candidates, Republican Warren Harding and Democrat James Cox, ...
Read More » August 5, 2021 Entertainment
The newest exhibition from the National WWI Museum and Memorial opens Friday, Aug. 27. Empires at War: Austria and Russia explores aspects of the war often less surveyed: the Eastern Front and ...
Read More » December 16, 2020 Entertainment, Local, News
The Lilly Endowment has given a grant of $2.5 million to the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City to establish an endowed curator position on faith and religion; ...
Read More » October 6, 2020 Local, News
The National World War I Museum and Memorial has announced its line-up of fall activities beginning Oct. 17. The museum holds the most comprehensive collection of World War I objects and documents ...
Read More » August 4, 2019 Columns, Local, News
Have you ever been to Longview Farm? Or visited the Kansas City Museum or the nation’s official WWI monument and museum, Liberty Memorial? Kansas City enjoys all these landmarks thanks to the generosity ...
Read More » May 16, 2019 Entertainment, Movies
For J.R.R. Tolkien, life began as a child running through hill and heather with a stick in his hand, filling his world with knights and dragons and forgotten quests. For Tolkien, this ...
Read More » April 14, 2019 Local, News
The World War I armistice on Nov. 11, 1918 ended fighting on the Western Front, but the war—and its lasting effects—did not end even with the signing of the Treaty of Paris ...
Read More » November 11, 2018 Local, News, World
Commemorations are underway around the world to mark the moment 100 years ago when the slaughter of World War I finally stopped. In Kansas City this morning at 9:30 the public is ...
Read More » October 30, 2018 Faith, News
A Bible marked with bullet holes from a German machine gun saved the life of a British World War I soldier, his daughter has explained. The Bible belonged to Private Leslie Friston, ...
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