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French settlers colonized southeast Missouri over 200 years ago. And with them came the French language and culture.They mined the lead belt region and…
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About 150 years ago in the vineyards of southern France, winemakers start to notice their vineyards aren’t looking healthy. They rack their brains but…
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In 1969, graduate student Barbara Papish hands out an underground newspaper on the University of Missouri Columbia campus. The Free Press Underground…
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On some days in the early 1900s, you could walk out to the railroad tracks near the Iowa border and watch rail cars full of horses moving in and out of Missouri. Occasionally, also in those cars are elephants, lions and monkeys.
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Helen Stephens starts high school in Fulton in 1931. She’s a gangly, gravelly-voiced farm girl dressed in homemade clothes. Her classmates tease her with…
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When the St. Louis Arch was being built in 1964, no Black workers had been hired for the construction crew.That didn’t sit well with Black activist Percy…
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KBIA has been named one of five finalists in the Podcasts: Documentary, Individual Episode category of the international awards competition.The podcast…
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Laura Ingalls Wilder’s journey to becoming a worldwide author is interlaced with pure hardship.On the morning of July 17, 1894, Laura has gathered…
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Today, on a map, Lake of the Ozarks looks like a sprouting, twisting tree root that covers 86 square miles. The over 1000 miles of shoreline are dotted…
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In the steamboat’s glory days right before the Civil War, there would be on average, 60 boats traveling through different ports along the Missouri River…