Christopher Bond, a former Missouri governor and senator, rallied schoolchildren to save an important collection of drawings. Bond died on Tuesday at 86.

Omaha Public Library wants to help readers find new books — or at least books new to them. Our employees recommend reading based on different writing genres, themes or styles. This edition centers art ...

M ore than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the ...

I’m doing my research at the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology, in Kansas City, Mo., and I’m currently working through the unpublished papers of the American Institute of ...

The history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Nodaway County showed that while this community could be a place of violence ...

The historic journey of the small but culturally potent dentalium shells from the ocean floor of the Pacific Northwest to the ...

He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume ... to bring a bit of sexiness, rock 'n' roll attitude, and a modern twist for ...

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...

He asserted how, at the age of 14, to score an IPL century against some of the finest bowlers in the world, is truly a magnificent feat. "All of us who played cricket, dreamt of cricket in a ...

FAYETTEVILLE — The baseball game between fifth-ranked Arkansas and Missouri State, scheduled for Tuesday, has been canceled due to heavy rains in the forecast for Springfield, Mo. The game ...

A body was found floating in the Missouri River on Saturday evening near N.P. Dodge Park, but authorities have not said whether it is one of three Omaha students who went missing in the river more ...

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.