The history didn’t stay on the pages a few weeks ago when Missouri Valley Special Collections Associate Abbey Briscoe was looking through a report from 1894.

If you drive by the Kirksville First Church of God, you might notice some new trees springing up around its property.

"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.

A new exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will feature photographs drawing on the lore of murder ballads in the South, traditions that shape Black identity in east Texas, relationships of ...