the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Arthur Aull. [Courtesy of Chad Stebbins]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Arthur-Aull.jpg?h=f88fb12f&itok=Zrs-c901 "Arthur Aull. [Courtesy of Chad Stebbins]")
Arthur Aull, who edited the Lamar Democrat from 1900 until his death in…
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills in southwestern Greene County on August 10, 1861, is Missouri’s best-…
Writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, and feminist, Emily Newell Blair was born in Joplin…
![George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/George-Washington-Carver.jpg?h=c1b467ab&itok=XYqrNEG3 "George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]")
Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington…
Perl D. Decker was an attorney who served three terms from 1913 to 1919 as a US congressman from Jasper County,…
Dorothy Van Dyke Leake, an educator noted for her ecological work and her efforts to…
Located in the southwest corner of Missouri, McDonald County borders Arkansas and Oklahoma. Situated within the…
![George Caleb Bingham’s depiction of the violence and tragedy of the Missouri-Kansas border war in his iconic painting Order No. 11. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1945.0003]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Bingham-Order-11.jpg?h=b1c532a8&itok=jk1r6Mou "George Caleb Bingham’s depiction of the violence and tragedy of the Missouri-Kansas border war in his iconic painting Order No. 11. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1945.0003]")
![Jim Owen promoting the Branson Silver Cornet Band, one of his many enterprises. [Courtesy of Trenton Thompson/Findagrave.com]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-James-Owen.jpg?itok=gFy5vygh "Jim Owen promoting the Branson Silver Cornet Band, one of his many enterprises. [Courtesy of Trenton Thompson/Findagrave.com]")
James M. Owen, a young advertising and insurance professional in Jefferson City, left mid-…
![Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Henry-Rowe-Schoolcraft.jpg?h=604cd0e2&itok=nO__aAnQ "Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]")
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft has a deserved reputation as an accomplished scientist-explorer who…