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Quindaro site in Kansas City, Kansas has received recognition as a national historic site opening it up to more funding opportunities.
Mizzou announced game times and television channels for their nonconference schedule, which includes the revival of the ...
For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities.
J. E. B. Stuart wrote from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, to his cousin Bettie Hairston, “A few ...
Some of the Ozarks’ greatest treasures aren’t buried below ground, but rest in the basement of the Curtis Laws Wilson Library ...
We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the ...
The West Virginia tavern now known as Foster's Main Street Tavern gained Civil War history when two future presidents dined ...
Dances With Wolves, Gettysburg, and Gone With the Wind are all among the greatest and most essential movies ever made about ...
Two of the 19 African American men from Missouri who went through flight training at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and can be called Tuskegee Airmen graduated from Lincoln High School in Joplin.
Over the next few weeks and months, I am going to endeavour to tell the history of Southwest Missouri and Barry County. I ...
Joel Rhodes is a historian and professor at Southeast Missouri State University with ... had not been divided since the 1860s, since the Civil War," Rhodes said. Because of the division, criticism ...
One early focus was digitization of Civil War service documents. The partnership has digitized over 70 million records to date. Ancestry purchased iArchives in 2010. Footnote became Fold3 on Aug ...