Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “America 250: The First 90 Years” is planned for 6:30 p.m. June 10 at the Library Center, 4653 S. Campbell Ave., Springfield. The ...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. – African American researcher, author, and Civil War reenactor Calvin L. Osborne will be a guest lecturer at the Fort Scott National Historic Site this weekend. The lecture is set for ...

This past August Army Private Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors at a veterans' cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. Private Wills served his country, though not in this century, or the last.

Enslaved people were routinely separated from their families. Before slavery was abolished in the U.S., it was common practice for plantation owners to split up families by selling children away from ...

The Palikari Project: Part III – Civil War & a Fresh Start | Toward the end of WWII, countries coming out from under the evil rule of The Axis were often were left to pickup the pieces of the ...

I was born in Blackearth, Wisconsin many moons age on April 1 to birth parents who had moved there from a rural area of upstate New York west of Albany, the state capital. During the winter of 1929 ...