the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Ernest-Calloway.jpg?h=4299bc80&itok=Zr6bOOin "Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]")
Ernest Calloway was born in Herberton, West Virginia, on January 1, 1909. His family became…
![The Administration Building at the Missouri State Penitentiary, 1955. Missouri carried out executions at the penitentiary’s gas chamber from 1937 until switching to lethal injection in 1989 and moving its death row to the Potosi Correctional Center in Washington County. [Missouri State Archives/Missouri Digital Heritage, Mark Schreiber Collection, MS297_255_009]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-06/1.-capital-punishment-in-missouri.jpg?h=436a5d0a&itok=-rpMGoZ7 "The Administration Building at the Missouri State Penitentiary, 1955. Missouri carried out executions at the penitentiary’s gas chamber from 1937 until switching to lethal injection in 1989 and moving its death row to the Potosi Correctional Center in Washington County. [Missouri State Archives/Missouri Digital Heritage, Mark Schreiber Collection, MS297_255_009]")
With the exception of two years in the early twentieth century, the state of Missouri has always allowed the…
![Carl Chapman at an unidentified archaeological site. [University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology and American Archaeology Division, 23SN202-2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Carl%20H.%20Chapman.jpg?h=85b4253e&itok=CIxXS6JP "Carl Chapman at an unidentified archaeological site. [University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology and American Archaeology Division, 23SN202-2]")
Carl Haley Chapman has appropriately been called the dean of Missouri archaeology, a title…
![Arthur Holly Compton. [University of Chicago Library, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-01878]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-01/1.-arthur-holly-compton.jpg?h=c249c502&itok=k2I3fXR9 "Arthur Holly Compton. [University of Chicago Library, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-01878]")
Arthur Holly Compton earned international recognition for his research in X-rays, sharing the 1927 Nobel Prize for…
![Howard A. Cowden (right) with former president Harry S. Truman. [Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, 64-1411]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Howard%20A.%20Cowden.jpg?h=6e1caf6f&itok=Jv0Nn8tA "Howard A. Cowden (right) with former president Harry S. Truman. [Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, 64-1411]")
The founder of the Consumers Cooperative Association (CCA) and the original field man for…
![Oliver Cromwell Cox as he appeared in Lincoln University’s yearbook in 1962. [The Archives, Lincoln University, 1962]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-06/1.%20Oliver%20Cromwell%20Cox.jpg?h=b830025e&itok=YUZObNqW "Oliver Cromwell Cox as he appeared in Lincoln University’s yearbook in 1962. [The Archives, Lincoln University, 1962]")
Oliver Cromwell Cox was arguably one of the most controversial mid-twentieth-century social…
![Joan Crawford in 1928. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-133571]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Joan-Crawford.jpg?h=3a3a887f&itok=dzrcMkNh "Joan Crawford in 1928. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-133571]")
Joan Crawford was born Lucille LeSueur on March 23, 1908, in what she described as “a drab…
![Jane Darwell in a photo taken in 1918. [University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, 22471]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Jane-Darwell.jpg?h=1ca7a6de&itok=LFTKxWAv "Jane Darwell in a photo taken in 1918. [University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, 22471]")
Jane Darwell, a pioneering film actress whose career spanned more than sixty years, was…
![Forrest Donnell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Forrest%20C.%20Donnell.jpg?h=ecf8be9c&itok=EFj4IiQn "Forrest Donnell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]")
Born in Quitman, Missouri, on August 20, 1884, the only child of dry-goods operator John…
![Phil Donnelly. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Phil%20Donnelly.jpg?h=a1a75ae8&itok=u_5NO6a0 "Phil Donnelly. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]")
Phil M. Donnelly was born in Lebanon, Missouri, on March 6, 1891. He was educated in…