the State Historical Society of Missouri
In the late nineteenth century, cycling became a popular American pastime. The League of American Wheelmen, a…
Jane Ace, a radio actress whose birth name was Jane Epstein and who was known professionally as Jane Sherwood, was…
Zoë Byrd Akins was born on October 30, 1886, in Humansville, Missouri, the second of three children of Thomas…
On April 14, 1876, the eleventh anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, a handsome…
Thomas Allen was among the most prominent and powerful individuals who led St. Louis in its transition from…
The Baby Tooth Survey was formed in 1958 by the Committee of Nuclear Information, a grassroots organization that…
By popular consensus, Tom Bass was one of the most skillful and popular horsemen of his era. At the time of his…
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills in southwestern Greene County on August 10, 1861, is Missouri’s best-…
Pitching immortal Satchel Paige, noted for his tall tales as much as his pitching, claimed that James “Cool Papa”…
Writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, and feminist, Emily Newell Blair was born in Joplin…
Kate Chopin began and ended her life in St. Louis, with an interlude as a young wife and mother in New…
Anna Lansing Clapp, president of the Ladies’ Union Aid Society (LUAS) of St. Louis, was born on August 28, 1814, at…
Adaline Weston Couzins, a volunteer nursing escort and relief worker during the Civil War, was born in Brighton,…
Phoebe Wilson Couzins, a lawyer and suffragist, was born on September 8, 1842, to John Edward Decker and…
Perl D. Decker was an attorney who served three terms from 1913 to 1919 as a US congressman from Jasper County,…
Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…
Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French pioneer missionary on the American frontier, was born on…
Curt Flood spent most of his baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals, playing center field for them from 1958…
Established in 1808 under the superintendence of William Clark, Fort Osage served as a US military outpost and a…
Daniel Marsh Frost, a Confederate army officer, was born on August 9, 1823, in Mariaville,…
Kate Leila Gregg, a professor of English at Lindenwood College in St.…
Born on September 10, 1835, in North Killington, Connecticut, William Torrey Harris was a…
Born on April 27, 1896, at Winters, Texas, Rogers Hornsby began his professional baseball…
In 1824–1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, famous veteran of the Revolutionary War, returned to America to make a…