Yager would know: She’s spent the last two years researching and writing Small Town Missouri, a new book from Reedy Press ...

Since 1966, the John Brown Jamboree has been a staple celebration in rural Osawatomie. The family-friendly event pays homage to one of Osawatomie's founding fathers, a pre-Civil War abolitionist.

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

They say the older you get, you either become someone who smokes meat or someone who gets into the Civil War. Well, I feel ...

He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) The Platte River Bridge Tragedy was a significant event in Missouri during the early Civil War. It was part ...

Thirty miles northwest of Kansas City sits a place where time seems to move at its own leisurely pace, where historic brick buildings line streets that have stories etched into every corner, and where ...

Thirty miles northwest of Kansas City sits a place where time seems to move at its own leisurely pace, where brick-lined streets tell stories of riverboat captains, and where the aroma of bourbon ...

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

In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...

Cultural milestones, such as hosting the first local film screenings at the Coates Opera House and nurturing stars like actor ...