Month: November 2018

The Lewis and Clark expedition, a fabled story, stuck in the minds of Americans, is a staple of elementary school...

A cornfield in Kansas is the last place you’d expect to discover a buried shipwreck.In 1988, Kansas City resident David...

By 1830, American citizens drank 7 gallons of ethanol a year per capita. (Most of them drank whiskey.) That’s close to...

Found photos gift us a captivating peek into the daily lives of people of the past. These pictures, from my...

Since St. Louis’ founding in 1764, the city on the Mississippi, with its Lewis and Clark history, revolutionary Eads Bridge,...

The Piasa Bird was a mythological bird-like creature that preyed along the Mississippi River. According to legend, it could latch...