Readers discuss an op-ed article by a history professor who said that greed was initially behind the slave trade, though racism was later used to justify it.
Most of the U.S. Treasury replicas hang in state capitols, but the Texas Governor gifted the state's bell to the Aggies for their enormous wartime sacrifices.
Burlington and Des Moines County have produced four medal winners. They were Nicholas Bouquet, from the First Iowa Infantry at the battle of Pea Ridge during the Civil War and James Whitmore, who served with General Sherman during his March to the Sea.