Cold War Era (1946–1991)

Born on April 27, 1896, at Winters, Texas, Rogers Hornsby began his professional baseball…

Jessie Housley was a successful Missouri artist and educator in the mid-twentieth century. She…

Fannie Hurst, the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst, was born at the home of her maternal grandparents…

The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…

Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson was an extraordinarily gifted blues guitarist and talented singer who pioneered a…

St. Louis writer and naturalist Josephine Johnson became the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction…

Jolly Mill, a grist mill and whiskey distillery, was built in the late 1840s on Capps Creek in…

The biography of Joseph James Jones is both the story of the life of an American artist and…

Kansas City’s sports fans might be forgiven for overlooking or choosing to forget that American League…

Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman, born in Concordia, Missouri, on May 9, 1907, became…