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Category: History

December 27, 2025December 27, 2025 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Irish Assassins – Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England (2021)

August 21, 2025August 22, 2025 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Life and Death on the Eastern Front – Rare Colour Photographs From World War II (2022)

August 11, 2025August 11, 2025 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Under the Black Umbrella – Voices from Colonial Korea 1910-1945 (2001)

March 13, 2025March 13, 2025 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Candlelight Tour of Fort Osage 2024 [History Tour]

December 27, 2024December 27, 2024 Stephen K.

REVIEW: God’s Chinese Son – The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (1996)

December 26, 2024December 26, 2024 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Mao Zedong: A Life (2006)

December 14, 2024December 14, 2024 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Old 76 Fire Fest 2024 [History Tour]

December 13, 2024December 13, 2024 Stephen K.

REVIEW: A Daughter of Han – The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman (1945)

May 5, 2024May 5, 2024 Stephen K.

REVIEW – Monkey (1592, 1943)

May 4, 2024May 4, 2024 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Art of War (5th century BCE)

December 19, 2023December 19, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Revolting Recipes From History (2023)

December 13, 2023December 13, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Landru’s Secret – The Deadly Seductions of France’s Lonely Hearts Serial Killer (2021)

December 11, 2023December 13, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Wolf Children of the Eastern Front – Alone and Forgotten (2022)

December 7, 2023December 8, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: History Comics – World War II – Fight on the Home Front (2023)

November 26, 2023November 26, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: On Desperate Ground – The Marines at The Reservoir the Korean War’s Greatest Battle (2018)

October 25, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Jackson County Historical Society – Young Historian Passport Program [History Tour]

October 13, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: All the Blood We Share: A Novel of the Bloody Benders of Kansas (2022)

October 13, 2023October 13, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1998)

September 19, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Road Back (1931)

September 19, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley (2005)

September 5, 2023September 5, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: National WWI Museum – Entertaining the Troops [History Tour]

August 29, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Woe to Live On – A Novel (1987)

August 29, 2023August 29, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Jack Hinson’s One-Man War – A Civil War Sniper (2009)

August 29, 2023August 29, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Revenant – A Novel of Revenge (2002)

August 3, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Museum at Prairie Fire [History Tour]

July 10, 2023July 3, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Spider-Man – Beyond Amazing at Union Station Kansas City [History Tour]

June 28, 2023June 28, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Jesse James Birthplace [History Tour]

May 26, 2023May 26, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum [History Tour]

May 21, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Wea Mission Site [History Tour]

May 6, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Wakarusa Valley Heritage Museum [History Tour]

April 25, 2023May 6, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum [History Tour]

April 19, 2023April 19, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: National WWI Museum – Living The Great War Weekend 2022 [History Tour]

April 17, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Great Overland Station [History Tour]

April 16, 2023April 17, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Pleasant Hill Railroad Days 2022 [History Tour]

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: National World War I Museum – Captured (2022) [History Tour]

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Historic Fourth of July around Kansas City in 2022 [History Tour]

January 18, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: 1859 Jail and Marshal’s Home in Independence, MO – Update [History Tour]

January 1, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Curious George – Let’s Get Curious! at Kansas City’s Crown Center [History Tour]

December 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Sugar Creek Slavic Festival 2022 [History Tour]

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: National World War I Museum – Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow [History Tour]

October 30, 2022October 30, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The English G.I. – World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy’s Adventures in the United States and Europe (2022)

October 21, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Zimmerman Telegram (1958)

October 8, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Collision of Empires – The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 (2014)

October 8, 2022October 8, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Last Battle – When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe (2013)

October 2, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Corinthian Hall: An American Palace (2010)

September 7, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Einstein’s War – How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I (2019)

September 6, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War (2018)

August 24, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Missouri Town, 1855: A Program in Architectural Preservation (1981)

August 22, 2022December 11, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Julia Velva, A Roman Lady from York – Her Life and Times Revealed (2021)

August 22, 2022December 11, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Forgotten German Genocide – Revenge Cleansing in Eastern Europe, 1945–50 (2021)

August 20, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Shoal Creek Living History Museum [History Tour]

August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Liberty Bell 7 at Planet Comicon [History Tour]

August 18, 2022August 19, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Topeka Dino Days 2022 [History Tour]

August 16, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Combat Air Museum [History Tour]

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861 (1998)

August 3, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Steam in my Lens – (2021)

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Historic Communities – Fort Life (1994)

July 11, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Pioneer Trails Adventures [History Tour]

June 29, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Museum of the Kansas National Guard [History Tour]

June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World (2013)

June 24, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Journey of Marcel Grob (2022)

June 14, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: All Quiet on the Western Front – A BBC Radio Drama (2014)

June 6, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Photographer of Mauthausen (2020)

June 3, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Blood and Fire: The Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling’s Original Sheik (2022)

May 28, 2022January 7, 2024 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Mill Office and Pioneer Spring Cabin [History Tour]

May 4, 2022May 4, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (2013)

April 29, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The National World War I Museum [History Tour]

April 26, 2022April 26, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Harlem – Part 1 (2022)

April 19, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Shigeru Mizuki’s Hitler (1971)

April 15, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Sergeant Stubby – How a Stray Dog and His Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nation (2014)

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: All Quiet on the Western Front – A Novel (1928)

April 5, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Apocalypse – World War I (2014)

April 3, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Guns of August (1962)

March 28, 2022March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: National WWI Museum & Memorial Souvenir Book (2009)

March 28, 2022March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Trench Dogs (2018)

March 25, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The ‘Stan (2018)

March 23, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses (2020)

March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: WWI Crusaders (2018)

March 6, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Apache Diaspora – Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (2021)

March 3, 2022March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

Historical Accuracy in Videogames is Never Great

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Wind (2019)

February 14, 2022January 19, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: National WWI Museum – Empires at War – Austria and Russia (2021-2022) [History Tour]

February 13, 2022January 19, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: National WWI Museum – Snapshots (2021-2022) [History Tour]

February 13, 2022February 13, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Korean Air War – Sabres, MiGs and Meteors, 1950–53 (2021)

January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (2016)

January 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: A Falklands Family at War – Diaries of the 1982 Conflict (2021)

December 20, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer – Post-Mortem

December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures (2021)

December 19, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 28) The Bingham-Waggoner Estate

December 2, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 27) Chicago & Alton Depot

December 2, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Bingham-Waggoner Estate History

December 2, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Chicago & Alton Depot History (2007)

November 30, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 26) National Frontier Trails Museum

November 7, 2021January 20, 2023 Stephen K.

REVIEW: War Remains (2021) [History Tour]

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The First World War (2005)

October 31, 2021March 30, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Lions of Leningrad (2022)

October 14, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 25) Bushwhacker Museum

September 28, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 24) John Brown Museum

September 27, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 23) The Grave of “Bloody” Bill Anderson

September 26, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 22) Santa Fe Trail Markers

September 26, 2021 Stephen K.

REVIEW: 1865 – Season 1 (2019)

September 20, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 21) Truman Library and Museum

September 17, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 20) Jesse James Bank Museum

September 17, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 19) Fort Scott Historic Site

September 13, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 18) Lecompton, Kansas

September 13, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 17) First Battle of Independence Walking Tour

September 12, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 16) Black Jack Battlefield

September 7, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 15) Frank James Gravesite

August 31, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 14) Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away at Union Station

August 20, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 13) Missouri Town 1855

August 20, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 12) Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site

August 16, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 11) Marais Des Cygnes Massacre Memorial Site

August 16, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Confessions of Nat Turner The Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. As Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray… (1831)

August 9, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 10) Battle of Mine Creek Historic Battlefield

August 9, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 9) Bushwhacker Jail

August 8, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Bushwhacker Jail Tales (2002)

July 26, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Battle of Island Mound – Bates County, Missouri October 29, 1862 (2001)

July 26, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Ride with the Devil (1999)

July 15, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 8) Clay County Museum

July 13, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Civil War Monuments and Memorials in Western Missouri (2014)

July 11, 2021August 3, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Before The Pharaohs: Exploring the Archaeology of Stone Age Egypt (2021)

July 9, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 6) Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead

July 9, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Hannah’s Brave Year (1964)

July 5, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 5) Second Battle of Independence Historic Markers Driving Tour

July 4, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Mormon Wars: The History of the Mormons’ Conflicts across the Frontier in the 19th Century (2017)

July 4, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 4) 1859 Jail, Marshal’s Home and Museum

July 4, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Lock Down: Outlaws, Lawmen and Frontier Justice in Jackson County, Missouri (2012)

July 2, 2021July 2, 2021 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Stonewall in the Shenandoah (2018)

June 27, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Stalingrad: Letters from the Volga (2019)

June 23, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Battle of Mine Creek: The Crushing End of the Missouri Campaign (2011)

June 22, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 3) Lone Jack Civil War Battlefield and Soldier’s Cemetery and Museum

June 22, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Bleeding Kansas: The Real Start of the Civil War (2013)

June 22, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Blood on the Streets: The Civil War Comes to Jackson County, Missouri, August 1862 (2012)

June 18, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: The Siege of Lexington, Missouri: The Battle of the Hemp Bales (2014)

June 18, 2021November 13, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 2) Battle of Lexington State Historic Site / Oliver Anderson House

June 16, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

2021: History Boy Summer (Part 1) Fort Osage State Historic Site

June 14, 2021March 28, 2022 Stephen K.

REVIEW: Fort Osage–opening of the American West (1983)

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