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Founded in 1873, March 22, 2023, marked the Southeast Missouri State University sesquicentennial anniversary, and a celebration was held at the University Center on SEMO’s campus.

The Kellerman Foundation of Cape Girardeau won a grant from The Smithsonian Institution to be one of five establishments in Missouri to showcase the…

Cape Girardeau has been talking lately about its Confederate monument in Ivers Square, located on the lawn of the Common Pleas Courthouse, which is being…

The Perry County Historical Society is compiling a bicentennial book for the 200th anniversary of the county’s founding, and they need your help.Director…

A distinct version of French is disappearing from the isolated Old Mines region in the Missouri Ozarks. Thousands of people once spoke pawpaw French, but today only a handful of speakers remain.

The Fourth of July was a far different holiday in the early 1800’s from the one we know today, according to historian Adam Criblez in his new book,…

Cape Girardeau celebrated the centennial of the adoption of Missouri’s state flag this weekend with a ceremony and tours of the historic Oliver-Leming…