History Blog 

A group of volunteers came out on Saturday morning, Sept. 17, 2016, to clean storm debris from historic Robinson Cemetery. Volunteers...

This building served as Hannibal's courthouse in 1888, when Lincoln Cook was sentenced to serve a 25-year term in the Missouri...

This illustration was published in the July 23, 1897, edition of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. MARY LOU MONTGOMERY The nation was abuzz in...

Cutline: King Tanner’s tombstone in Leavenworth National Cemetery, Kansas. Photo on Find A Grave posted by Steve McCray. MARY LOU...

Louis Bright of Hannibal, right, is pictured in uniform with his two brothers, Ora Hart, left, and Wallace Dixon, center. Ora served in...

George Deason took this July 1985 photo of the Clarence Woodson American Legion Post 155 color guard marching in the Fourth of July...

Author: Mary Lou Montgomery Originally published in the Hannibal Courier-Post Sept. 21, 2013 Black soil, sifting through his fingertips,...

OE Estill July 21, 1975 Sandy Luiperspeck Courier-Post Women’s Editor When O.E. Estill began his teaching career in 1927 at Douglass...

Any resident of the Fifth ward who does not know Alf. Doolin is not posted on local celebrities of color. Alf. Doolin is a civil rights...