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SPRINGFIELD, Mo.- Race and politics are certainly part of the news today. But these issues go back so far, they’ve been part of Missouri’s story since the beginning. The founding of the state and the ...

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 ...

On March 6, 1820, President James Monroe signed into law legislation referred to as the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in the northern parts of the Louisiana Territory and allowed it in ...

As the nation expanded westward, the dispute over slavery intensified. Citizens of Southern slave states clashed with Northern activists who were morally opposed to slavery. Would the new territories ...

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 ...