The Symposium was the first time Jefferson City hosted a conference that explored the relationships between Germans and African Americans during the Civil War.
During the Washington Public Library (WPL) Board of Trustees meeting Monday, library Director Nelson Appell unveiled the lecture program that will replace the Missouri Book Festival this fall.
Ulysses Grant, the celebrated Union Army general who would become U.S. president, spent many years living and working on land which has since become Grant’s Farm.
HANNIBAL — Jim’s Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center and the Deutschheim Verein will present a “Symposium on the Shared History of Germans and African Americans” from 2-4 p.m. Saturday,