Kansas City Life’s link to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

A February 1944 newspaper clipping shows Kansas City Life Insurance Company President Walter Bixby exchanging a $6.5 million check for the manuscript of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. As scientists and science geeks across the world ...

Do you recognize this Midtown street before 1920?

Photo Courtesy Kansas City Public Library, Missouri Valley Special Collections. Like other commercial corridors in Midtown today, this street started its life as a residential area. But in the 1920s, it evolved into the commercial corridor it ...