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A battle fought in Carthage more than a century ago, now memorialized by a historic monument in its downtown square.
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Missouri lawmakers want to keep an economic ceasefire alive — even as Kansas mounts an aggressive effort to lure the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals across the border.
Dozens of people sat on the edges of their seats Saturday at the Missouri State Archives as speakers detailed Civil War efforts in Missouri in late 1864.
The 160th anniversary of a Civil War raid into Missouri is being remembered with reenactments, tours, seminars and other events around the state this fall, including an event in Southwest ...
One police officer and one civil processor were shot and killed in Independence, Missouri, on Thursday, police said, while two other officers were also shot and wounded.
Here are the best Civil War movies and all the various ways you can watch them online and on physical media.
On Jan. 11, also known as Missouri Emancipation Day, the Missouri History Museum is bringing new attention to an antebellum insurrection plot that was secretly devised by free Black Americans in ...
Missouri was a border state during the American Civil War, and Missourians fought on both sides of the war. Battles raged across every corner of the state. In Southeast Missouri, close to the ...
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.
DONNA. AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS FROM MISSOURI WHO FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR ARE BURIED HERE AT FAIRVIEW NEW HOPE CEMETERY IN LIBERTY. AND UNTIL A FEW YEARS AGO, THEY WEREN’T EVEN RECOGNIZED.
When you look at the dates, most Missouri courthouses that were lost to the fire took place from 1881 to 1885, and it’s not just a coincidence. This was the time of the US Civil War, and when ...