I'm standing at the center of what was once the greatest civilization between the deserts of Mexico and the North American ...

CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois — I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s, along with the ...

This weekend, with drums and rain sticks and extra-long Indigenous flutes, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is preparing to stir the great American melting pot. “Visions of Cahokia,” a 14-minute ...

COLLINSVILLE — A movement to designate Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site as part of the National Park System may be picking up again. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth have reintroduced a ...

When discussions turn to ancient wonders and vast historical cities, names like the pyramids of Egypt, the Roman Forum, or the Mayan temples often come to mind. But what if we told you that one of the ...

This is FRESH AIR. Novelist Francis Spufford's latest work of alternative historical fiction is called "Cahokia Jazz." It's a hard-boiled detective novel that imagines an America where Native ...

The St. Louis area on the east side of the river was once the cultural center of North America, long before European “discovery” and settlement of the Midwest. The ancient Cahokia civilization, which ...

Everyone knows by now that a virus can bring a nation to its knees — the tiny terrorists of smallpox, Spanish flu and COVID-19 have disrupted America’s story in lethal and tragic ways. But what if one ...

It’s 1922, and a pair of homicide detectives are investigating a grisly murder on the rooftop of the Land Trust building in downtown Cahokia. The victim, a white man named Fred Hopper, has been ...