the State Historical Society of Missouri
The Baby Tooth Survey was formed in 1958 by the Committee of Nuclear Information, a grassroots organization that…
![Francis White Cloud. Portrait by George Catlin, circa 1844–1845. [Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Francis-White-Cloud.jpg?h=46afd397&itok=EItLaSEK "Francis White Cloud. Portrait by George Catlin, circa 1844–1845. [Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art]")
The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…
![Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, with Charlie O., the team’s mascot. [Jackson County Historical Society Archives, photo #2017.006.188]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-03/1.%20Kansas%20City%20Athletics.jpg?h=1f5e5598&itok=Q8JYw3W8 "Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, with Charlie O., the team’s mascot. [Jackson County Historical Society Archives, photo #2017.006.188]")
Kansas City’s sports fans might be forgiven for overlooking or choosing to forget that…
The Lemp Brewery in St. Louis was established by Johann Adam Lemp in the early…
![This 1806 map was reproduced from William Clark’s original map that traced the expedition’s journey across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 800.4 C549m 1804-1806]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Lewis%20and%20Clark.jpg?h=48be2a7f&itok=wWe64dFT "This 1806 map was reproduced from William Clark’s original map that traced the expedition’s journey across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 800.4 C549m 1804-1806]")
Between May 1804 and September 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition made its way up…
![<em>Missouri Indian, Oto Indian, Chief of the Puncas</em>, portraits made by Karl Bodmer during an exploration of the Missouri River and its environs led by Prince Maximilian of Wied in 1833–1834. The Missouria man portrayed is Mahinkacha (Maker of Knives). [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, <a href=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/art/id/477/> 1958.0007c1</a>]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-03/1.-missouria.jpg?itok=Qzyu2w6o "<em>Missouri Indian, Oto Indian, Chief of the Puncas</em>, portraits made by Karl Bodmer during an exploration of the Missouri River and its environs led by Prince Maximilian of Wied in 1833–1834. The Missouria man portrayed is Mahinkacha (Maker of Knives). [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, <a href=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/art/id/477/ >1958.0007c1</a>]")
When French explorer Robert La Salle passed by the mouth of the Missouri River in 1682, he wrote that on its banks…
![Mo-Hon-Go (Sacred Sun), an Osage woman, and her child. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Image Collection, 021180]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Osage-woman-and-child.jpg?h=238c05a8&itok=9oO6EF7v "Mo-Hon-Go (Sacred Sun), an Osage woman, and her child. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Image Collection, 021180]")
![St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-St_Louis_Browns.jpg?h=2409fecb&itok=zmo6EN3t "St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]")
The St. Louis Browns were a professional baseball team that played in the American League…
The St. Louis Junto played a key role in shaping the politics of early nineteenth-…
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco, was a regional freight and passenger carrier…