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SPRINGFIELD, Mo.- Missouri is celebrating 200 years this year and to honor that, OzarksFirst is taking a look at the past 200 years and what has made Missouri significant all this time. OzarksFirst ...

Missouri gets its name from the Missouri Native American tribe that lived at the confluence of what are now the grand and Missouri rivers. In fact, Missouri’s first inhabitants were part of the ...

Martial Law, or Order No. 11, oil on linen, by George Caleb Bingham, 1868. The painting recalls the aftermath of the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, by Quantrill’s Confederate guerillas. The state's bucolic ...

HONOLULU – The Battleship Missouri Memorial has unveiled a new plaque onboard the USS Missouri to recognize the state’s efforts to preserve America’s last-commissioned battleship. Visitors can now ...

It was meant to be a joke, but to black students at the University of Missouri it was something they couldn’t ignore. Four months after the shooting death of Michael Brown a local club gave out ...

Discover the fascinating history of Hannibal, Missouri, and how it inspired Mark Twain’s iconic stories. Explore the town’s ...

ST. LOUIS - If you want to know about a people, look at the food they eat. The new book "A Culinary History of Missouri: Foodways & Iconic Dishes of the Show-Me State" traces the history of Missouri ...

Missouri’s use of the death penalty — a “consistent outlier” as use of capital punishment wanes across the country — has a direct tie to the state’s history of lynching, a new report says. The report, ...