the State Historical Society of Missouri
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/large/public/2020-07/George-Washington-Carver.jpg?itok=mjeTuHjM "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/large/public/2020-06/Bingham-Order-11.jpg?itok=vRss3ExL "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]")
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco, was a regional freight and passenger carrier…