Perhaps it was the lure of steady employment that guided Peter J. McGuire from Palmer, Mass., to Hannibal in the early 1900s.

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Slavery bitterly divided North against South and neighbor against neighbor throughout the early history of the United States.

Development well permits issued in the Permian Basin by the Texas Railroad Commission, the state's oil and gas regulating ...

Riverside Street, located on Hannibal’s South Side, played a significant role during the post-Civil War years. Funeral corteges traditionally followed the path of Riverside Street, from its inception ...

The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840s, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the ...

From the start of the 1840s, economic crises, mass poverty and general political discontent destabilised the social and political order in numerous European countries, culminating in a wave of ...

Today, drones are used for various functions, including monitoring climate change, delivering goods, aiding search and rescue operations, and filming and photography. Of course, UAVs are also an ...

A new virtual museum that shows artifacts found at the Maryland home where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her teenage years was unveiled by the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT).

The U.S. Secret Service shot an armed Indiana man near the White House early Sunday morning, officials said. The name of the man, his Hoosier State hometown and his condition were not immediately ...

Joslyn Art Museum – 2200 Dodge St. Daily: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Admission: $10 & free for kids under 12 and members Sign up for our Newsletters Sean Kenney’s Nature Connects®: Made with LEGO ...