the State Historical Society of Missouri
In the late nineteenth century, cycling became a popular American pastime. The League of American Wheelmen, a…
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills in southwestern Greene County on August 10, 1861, is Missouri’s best-…
In 1824–1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, famous veteran of the Revolutionary War, returned to America to make a…
The Louisiana Purchase, an 1803 land deal between the United States and France, doubled the size of the United…
![Virginia Minor. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-95372]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Minor-v-Happersett.jpg?h=f72d155d&itok=2Ui1rElZ "Virginia Minor. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-95372]")
Decided in 1873 by the Supreme Court of Missouri and in 1874 by the US Supreme Court, …
![George Caleb Bingham’s depiction of the violence and tragedy of the Missouri-Kansas border war in his iconic painting Order No. 11. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1945.0003]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Bingham-Order-11.jpg?h=b1c532a8&itok=jk1r6Mou "George Caleb Bingham’s depiction of the violence and tragedy of the Missouri-Kansas border war in his iconic painting Order No. 11. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1945.0003]")
Civil war raged along the Kansas-Missouri border for nearly a decade in the mid-…
During the early hours of December 16, 1811, a series of violent shakes roused inhabitants of the mid-Mississippi…
![This map shows the layout of the small village of Newtonia as it existed during the Civil War. [Courtesy of Larry Wood]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-First-Battle-of-Newtonia.jpg?h=98386c46&itok=8rip4ZYY "This map shows the layout of the small village of Newtonia as it existed during the Civil War. [Courtesy of Larry Wood]")
During the early months of the Civil War, the Missouri State Guard and the Confederate Army combined to win…
![A map of the battlefield at Newtonia on October 28, 1864. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 850 P9311]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-05/1.-second-battle-of-newtonia.jpg?h=b8936874&itok=blJfH5Ye "A map of the battlefield at Newtonia on October 28, 1864. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 850 P9311]")
From the time Confederate forces were driven out of Missouri in early 1862, General …
![A Union encampment in the Arcadia valley early in the war. Pilot Knob Mountain is at right. [Harper’s Weekly, September 21, 1861]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Battle-of-Pilot-Knob.jpg?h=f8e16983&itok=52QaphHB "A Union encampment in the Arcadia valley early in the war. Pilot Knob Mountain is at right. [Harper’s Weekly, September 21, 1861]")