The first homes were holes in the ground. Emma Ray remembered them clearly — dugouts scraped into the earth after ...

SPRINGFIELD – As a young child, Mary Jo McDonald spent years in foster care and was on the list to be adopted by a new family. That all changed when her troubled mother found the strength to change.

SPRINGFIELD - Parts of downtown Springfield will be changed into a Civil War field hospital next month. The event - from June 5 to 7- is part of the year-long celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th ...

Dr. James I. Robertson spoke to the Civil War Roundtable of the Ozarks on September 20, 1960. The editor of a quarterly publication, Civil War History, and the author of several books, Robertson ...

SPRINGFIELD - Many times, the "Boys in Blue" during the American Civil War were just boys. Mary Michals, audio and visual curator for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library in Springfield ...