The Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills in southwestern Greene County on August 10, 1861, is Missouri’s best-…
Writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, and feminist, Emily Newell Blair was born in Joplin…
Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington…
Perl D. Decker was an attorney who served three terms from 1913 to 1919 as a US congressman from Jasper County,…
Dorothy Van Dyke Leake, an educator noted for her ecological work and her efforts to…
Located in the southwest corner of Missouri, McDonald County borders Arkansas and Oklahoma. Situated within the…
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft has a deserved reputation as an accomplished scientist-explorer who…
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco, was a regional freight and passenger carrier…