Before the Civil War, almost nobody in Missouri supported the abolition of salvery. Even strong Unionists generally supported "the peculiar institution." But the bloody conflict created a new ...

Almost exactly 160 years ago, the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic end. By December 1864, it was ...

April 30 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, a conflict historians say changed the U.S. in fundamental ways.

A sociopath who lived for spilling blood, William Anderson was one of the most fearsome leaders of Confederate guerrillas in Civil War Missouri. Jesse James joined Anderson's group in 1864 and ...

Reigning over Missouri with plenty of Americana ... place for Union soldiers during the Civil War, including five buffalo soldiers, African American soldiers who served during the Civil War.