Under current Missouri law, anyone under 16 is prohibited from getting married. But 16 and 17 year olds can get married with parental consent to anyone under 21. The bill, sponsored by Democratic ...

The way child sexual assault cases are handled in Missouri could soon change. A bill named after a young man who was abused ...

there will be a regret felt by many that the bills providing for compensated emancipation of slaves in the States of Maryland and Missouri failed to become laws. No part of the President's policy ...

On January 11, 1865, the delegates of the Missouri state convention passed the immediate emancipation of all enslaved persons. Join us for a short presentation about the history of Missouri ...

Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation ... days of the Civil War. Missouri, a slave state, was deeply divided, and Fremont’s proclamation declared martial law and freed the slaves in ...

Until the legislature voted to raise the minimum marriage age to 16 in 2018, Missouri had among the most lenient child marriage laws in the nation — making it an especially popular state for 15 ...