Dozens of people sat on the edges of their seats Saturday at the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City as speakers detailed Civil War efforts in Missouri in late 1864. Among the speakers at a ...

Missouri had long teetered between being a slave or free state. And in 1864, after three years of bloodshed, former Missouri Gov. Sterling Price, while serving as a Confederate general, presented his ...

Christian County native P.J. Logan's uncle used to take her son around Ozark to visit various Civil War history points of interest. Logan remembers one of these local sites was a farm, just north of ...

"In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire." This quote from a speech given by Oliver Wendall Holmes demonstrates the profound effects the Civil War had on our ancestors. Up to 80% of those who ...

For history buffs and Civil War enthusiasts, the Battle of Carthage Museum offers a place to learn more about one of the first full-scale land battles of the war. Located on the main square in ...

At the crossroads of progress and justice, Missouri shaped the path of a divided nation. Crossroads of a Nation, Part II: Rifts, Roads and Civil Rights explores Missouri's journey from Civil War ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz and Kansas counterpart Lance Leipold spent some time this week not as football coaches teaching the X’s and O’s but as history professors ...

At regional living history museums, interpreters demonstrate how people in earlier generations lived their days in early Missouri. Around the Kansas City region, living history museums like Missouri ...

Federal agencies deposited millions of Civil War records in National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) over the years. The originals for most of the records I am discussing are among those.