Celia, the property of Robert Newsom, stood trial in Fulton, Missouri, in 1855 for the murder of her master, a…
Following the death of Clermont (Gra-Mon or “Arrow-Going-Home”) in 1796, his son, also…
Oliver Cromwell Cox was arguably one of the most controversial mid-twentieth-century social…
During the first half of the eighteenth century, marriages between Native Americans and…
Herman Dreer, a respected Black St. Louis educator and scholar, was born on September 12,…
Lloyd Gaines’s efforts to obtain a legal education in Missouri resulted in a Supreme Court…
Gert Goebel came to Missouri in 1834 as an eighteen-year-old German immigrant, settling in…
George Husmann was born on November 4, 1827, in Meyenburg, Prussia, the son of J. H. Martin…