Roger D. Launius is a former associate director for collections and curatorial affairs at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and former chief historian for NASA.

Articles Authored

Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most…

A portrait of Alexander Doniphan, painted by George Caleb Bingham around 1850

Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…

Sidney Rigdon. [Courtesy of the Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]

Born on February 17, 1793, on a farm near St. Clair Township, in Allegheny County,…