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 ...

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 ...

It was about three years ago when composer James Lee III started thinking about the ancient civilization of Cahokia as a topic for an orchestral work. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra commissioned Lee ...

Can new scientific research help unravel the mystery of Cahokia's disappearance? In its prime, Cahokia was a prosperous city with a population similar to London’s. But this sprawling Native American ...

The remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico are preserved at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois. Archaeologist Natalie Mueller's new study casts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Tim Pauketat wants to change the way people think about pre-Columbian America. "Most people tend not to think of history before the arrival of Columbus, and they think of the ancient past as ...

Take a look from the air at the 2,200 acre Cahokia Mounds state historic site that was once home to a large prehistoric native civilization. Video by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com It ...