More than 30 Illinois counties are looking to leave the state and join another state. Here's what you need to know.

The action was taken under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which was during the pre-Civil War era and allowed Missouri to become a slave state and Maine a free state, Helmke said. “Back then ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with the start of a coloring contest to celebrate Lincoln and work on a mural ...

The Civil War began ... for 30 points. The Missouri Compromise admitting, that would be Toledo Christian, Bryson. - 1850s. - Incorrect. St. Francis, chance to steal. - 1820.

Missouri lawmakers want to keep an economic ceasefire alive — even as Kansas mounts an aggressive effort to lure the Kansas ...

"I was 18 years old when I got on that ship and went to war," said Broussard. Broussard’s naval career spanned six years, taking him across multiple deployments. He served on the USS Missouri ...

For the first time since Gates took the Missouri basketball job ... Also worth noting: Mizzou is again one place ahead of its Border War rival Kansas in the AP poll.

Missouri basketball was on the road in front of a sold-out, notoriously raucous crowd. On that road trip, Mizzou was facing a top-15 team. And a top-15 team, no less, that the Tigers hadn’t ...