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Writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, and feminist, Emily Newell Blair was born in Joplin…
Perl D. Decker was an attorney who served three terms from 1913 to 1919 as a US congressman from Jasper County,…
Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…
In 1824–1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, famous veteran of the Revolutionary War, returned to America to make a…
The Louisiana Purchase, an 1803 land deal between the United States and France, doubled the size of the United…