Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri,…
Born on April 27, 1896, at Winters, Texas, Rogers Hornsby began his professional baseball…
Fannie Hurst, the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst, was born at the home of her…
The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…
Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson was an extraordinarily gifted blues guitarist and talented singer…
The biography of Joseph James Jones is both the story of the life of an American artist and…
Kansas City’s sports fans might be forgiven for overlooking or choosing to forget that…
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman, born in Concordia, Missouri, on May 9, 1907, became…
Dorothy Van Dyke Leake, an educator noted for her ecological work and her efforts to…
Edward V. Long was born on July 18, 1908, in Lincoln County, Missouri. He received his…