William Jennings Bryan knew how to deliver a speech, a talent he picked it up as a kid and ran with, the youngest man ever

You’ve heard, of course, the oddities, like the dictionary and the Bible, but what made the news this week was that Pen America, who tallies

Just about ten years ago, St. Louis University, a private Jesuit institution, moved a statue featuring one of its own founders, Father Pierre-Jean De Smet,

Just so happened to sit on a folding chair set up directly beneath the basket on the north end of the court last week at

In a sunny sky especially, the huge sandstone cutbanks along the Missouri can be perfectly stunning. To stumble on them after endless hours of treeless

Seems to me you have to cut LBJ some slack here. The man didn’t ask to be President. Didn’t run for it. Came into it

For years I’ve been told by friends I trust that I needed to read An Interrupted Life, by Etty Hillesum, who was Dutch and Jewish, a grown-up

Exactly 136 years ago today, a monster arose on the northern plains just as country school kids were about to be dismissed. The Initial brute

The State of Minnesota wants a half-section of land in Murray County to become once again what it was 200 years ago, when only Dakota