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Roper v. Simmons was a landmark case heard in the Supreme Court of…

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…

souvenir program from the 1944 World Series

The 1944 World Series was the first played entirely west of the Mississippi River. St. Louis,…