For several years, a St. Louis woman has been working to raise awareness about racism and slavery of minority groups. Anthony Morabith chats with Pamela Westbrooks-Hodge who found out, just two years ago, that she’s related to a slave who died fighting against racism...
General and President Ulysses S. Grant quit the U.S. military to become a farmer before the Civil War broke out. Cameron Conner talks to Nick Sacco, Historian and Curator of the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in Southern St. Louis County about how Grant found...
While some parts of the nation were eager to fight at the beginning of the Civil War, Missouri was still trying to remain neutral. This effort was headed for failure. Missourians tried for peace in word and deed, but when the step was taken across the line, war came...
As she cared for soldiers wounded in the Civil War, Phoebe Couzins became convinced that women could do as much to avert war as they did to heal the wounds it caused. But, she felt, women had to have political power; they had to be legal equals of men. In her long...
Franz Sigel was a German who chose the wrong side in the German Revolution. He was driven from his home country twice to Switzerland and finally even Switzerland attempted to ship him to America. Knowing the trouble Sigel had going where he was supposed to go, and...
