Roger D. Launius is a former associate director for collections and curatorial affairs at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and former chief historian for NASA.
![Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Lilburn-Boggs-Portrait.jpg?itok=UuUuc_L_ "Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]")
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most…
![Peter Hardeman Burnett, circa 1860. [University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-07/1.-peter-burnett.jpg?itok=0I2UZm4C "Peter Hardeman Burnett, circa 1860. [University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library]")
Born on November 15, 1807, in Nashville, Tennessee, Peter Hardeman Burnett was the eldest son of George and…
Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…
![Sidney Rigdon. [Courtesy of the Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-06/1.%20Sidney%20Rigdon.jpg?itok=GDkZhHkK "Sidney Rigdon. [Courtesy of the Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]")
Born on February 17, 1793, on a farm near St. Clair Township, in Allegheny County,…
the State Historical Society of Missouri