Missouri State University's Dr. Jeremy Neely unearths over 400 love letters between a young Union couple during the Civil War ...

The founding of the state and the nation’s Civil War have close historical ties. Even if they’ve never set foot in Missouri, history students all over the country know about the state because ...

ST. LOUIS -- A vast, virtually unexamined National Archives collection on Missouri's Civil War history is now accessible to Civil War buffs, genealogists and other researchers, thanks to an online ...

Cancel anytime. ST. LOUIS • The Missouri History Museum's special exhibit on the Civil War opens this weekend with old artifacts and fast-moving interactive panels depicting this state's own ...

McCoskrie said this book is meant to be accessible to anyone curious about Missouri history or the Civil War. Ample citations throughout provide a jumping-off point for readers hoping to learn ...

According to Missouri State Parks, Lexington had 4,122 people prior to the Civil War, and its grand estates still line many of the streets. The trolley tours have inspired the town of history ...

Reporting from Boonville, Mo. — “Split state” used to sound simple to me, as though it were 50-50, North versus South, nice tidy halves. But Missouri wasn’t just split in the Civil War.

Examines the build-up to the Civil War: slavery, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism, and key events like the Dred Scott decision and the election of Lincoln led to secession.

Among the speakers at a symposium on military, political and social history of the war in Missouri ... "But the American Civil War in Missouri uniquely destroyed the social fabric of everyday ...

From the region’s indigenous cultures up to the brink of the Civil War, this film will trace Missouri’s indelible and undeniable mark on American history, which helped shape the nation into ...

The founding of the state and the nation’s Civil War have close historical ties. Even if they’ve never set foot in Missouri, history students all over the country know about the state because ...