the State Historical Society of Missouri
Lawrence O. Christensen was Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
![Cyprian Clamorgan’s The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Library, Lib197-00001]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-04/colored-aristocracy.jpg?itok=L4DytwBM "Cyprian Clamorgan’s The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Library, Lib197-00001]")
The grandson of Jacques Clamorgan, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote The Colored Aristocracy of St.…
Articles Authored
![Note of Jacques Clamorgan agreeing to pay skins worth $153 to Pierre Chouteau on July 19, 1807. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Clamorgan Family Papers, A0288-00017]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-04/1.-jacques-clamorgan.jpg?itok=PEigdUFb "Note of Jacques Clamorgan agreeing to pay skins worth $153 to Pierre Chouteau on July 19, 1807. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Clamorgan Family Papers, A0288-00017]")
Jacques Phillippe Clamorgan arrived on the Missouri frontier in the early 1780s and spent the rest of his…
![Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-09/1.-peter-humphries-clark.jpg?itok=BCRBR6xP "Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]")
Peter Humphries Clark provided leadership for African American communities in St. Louis and Cincinnati, Ohio…
![Arthur Holly Compton. [University of Chicago Library, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-01878]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-01/1.-arthur-holly-compton.jpg?itok=WGMagfr2 "Arthur Holly Compton. [University of Chicago Library, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-01878]")
Arthur Holly Compton earned international recognition for his research in X-rays, sharing the 1927 Nobel Prize for…
![John Breckenridge Ellis. [History of Clinton and Caldwell Counties, Missouri, 1923]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-11/1.-john-breckinridge-ellis_0.jpg?itok=oNiGR387 "John Breckenridge Ellis. [History of Clinton and Caldwell Counties, Missouri, 1923]")
John Breckenridge Ellis wrote more than twenty-five books during his long life. At eighteen months, he…