the State Historical Society of Missouri
Virginia J. Laas
Virginia J. Laas is professor emerita of history at Missouri Southern State University.
Jeffrey E. Smith
Jeffrey E. Smith is a professor of history at Lindenwood University.
John Bradbury
John Bradbury was a Center for Missouri Studies fellow and the former director of the State Historical Society of Missouri's Rolla Research Center.
Christopher K. Hays
Christopher K. Hays is a web developer with Coventry Health Care in St. Louis. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The Baby Tooth Survey in St. Louis
The Baby Tooth Survey was formed in 1958 by the Committee of Nuclear Information, a grassroots organization that included prominent scientists and citizens in St. Louis.
Luke Ritter
Luke Ritter is an associate professor of history at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Thomas Allen (1813–1882)
Thomas Allen was among the most prominent and powerful individuals who led St. Louis in its transition from commercial outpost to industrial metropolis.
Eric Sandweiss
Eric Sandweiss is professor and Carmony Chair in the Indiana University Department of History, and editor of the Indiana Magazine of History.
Zoë Byrd Akins (1886–1958)
Zoë Byrd Akins was born on October 30, 1886, in Humansville, Missouri, the second of three children of Thomas Jasper and Sarah Elizabeth Green Akins, who was for many years the chair of the Missouri Republican Party.
Catherine N. Parke
Catherine N. Parke is professor emerita of English and women’s studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia.