Reader question: What happened to the old west-side waterway that went into the Fox River?
It was sometimes referred to as a bayou, but most often as a "slough." Whatever you called the waterway into the Fox River, ...
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Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America? Google Maps and contentious geography
Google announced on Monday that its online mapping platform, Google Maps, will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for users in the US. Additionally, Google Maps will change ...
How did Westport, near no body of water, get its name? KCQ provides a history lesson
At one point, the settlement seemed poised “to become the city of destiny,” one historian wrote. But it didn’t last.
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In an 1897 bid to end ‘birthright citizenship,’ a Virginia lawyer argued that part of the Constitution was unconstitutional
The 1897 Supreme Court case that now bears his name produced a landmark ruling, one that more than a century later another president of the United States — Donald Trump — seeks to overturn. The issue ...