the State Historical Society of Missouri
![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]")
In September of 1864, Confederate army troops led by Major General …
![Wayne Powers with his family in France. [© Francois Gragnon / Paris Match / Scoop, used by permission]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-01/1.-wayne-powers.jpg?h=c0aa477a&itok=Ow5R4uvT "Wayne Powers with his family in France. [© Francois Gragnon / Paris Match / Scoop, used by permission]")
When Wayne E. Powers, a US Army private from Missouri, was arrested for desertion on March 22, 1958, it…
![An early twentieth-century postcard of Stewart Bridge, where a mob killed James T. Scott in the early hours of April 29, 1923. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John W. Coffman Collection of University of Missouri Postcards (P305), 010783-1]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-12/1.%20James%20Scott%20Lynching.jpg?h=40f6148b&itok=WEKUFYY0 "An early twentieth-century postcard of Stewart Bridge, where a mob killed James T. Scott in the early hours of April 29, 1923. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John W. Coffman Collection of University of Missouri Postcards (P305), 010783-1]")
James T. Scott (1885?–1923) was the victim of one of the most…
The 1944 World Series was the first played entirely west of the Mississippi River. St. Louis,…
![Snags (Sunken Trees) on the Missouri, print replicating Karl Bodmer’s painting, 1841. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0006c1]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-02/1.-yellowstone-expedition.jpg?h=5893366c&itok=j855eR_C "Snags (Sunken Trees) on the Missouri, print replicating Karl Bodmer’s painting, 1841. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0006c1]")
The Yellowstone Expedition of 1818–1820 was a military and scientific excursion in which the United States…