In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

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In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

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Rustic frontier mansions across Missouri stand as silent testaments to ambition and decay, their empty foundations echoing a ...