the State Historical Society of Missouri
William E. Foley is professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Missouri.
Articles Authored
![Portrait of William Clark by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1807–1809. [Courtesy of the Independence National Historical Park]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/William-Clark-portrait-by-Peale.jpg?itok=0Eite8jK "Portrait of William Clark by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1807–1809. [Courtesy of the Independence National Historical Park]")
William Clark, the celebrated explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis …
Established in 1808 under the superintendence of William Clark, Fort Osage served as a US military outpost and a…
John Hardeman, best remembered for the botanical showplace he created on the banks of the…
![Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Edward-Hempstead.jpg?itok=OQ2N2erA "Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]")
Edward Hempstead, a prominent early Missouri attorney and politician, was born in New…
The Louisiana Purchase, an 1803 land deal between the United States and France, doubled the size of the United…