Hugh Robinson. [Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University]

Hugh Armstrong Robinson, a member of the distinguished Early Birds…

Theodore Pease Russell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John Steele McCormick Collection, R0877]

Born in 1820, Theodore Russell was the third son of Cyrus and Rebecca Russell, who…

Saukie and Fox on the St. Louis waterfront by Karl Bodmer, 1834. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1958.0010c2]

The Sac and Fox were not native to Missouri, but were significant in Missouri’s territorial and early…

Denton Jacques Snider. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 27, 1925]

Denton Jacques Snider, born on January 9, 1841, in Mount Gilead, Ohio, was a literary…

St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]

The St. Louis Browns were a professional baseball team that played in the American League…

Frisco logo

The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco, was a regional freight and passenger carrier…

Charlton H. Tandy. [State Historical Society of Missouri, St. Louis Research Center, Black History Photograph Collection (S0336)]

Charlton H. Tandy, an outspoken leader of the nineteenth-century Black civil rights…

Father Augustus Tolton. [Image in public domain]

Father Augustus Tolton, recognized as the first openly African American priest in the United States…

Silas Turnbo. [Courtesy of the Springfield–Greene County Library District]

Silas C. Turnbo collected stories from Ozarkers in the upper White River country of…

James Milton Turner, circa 1870. [Lincoln University]

Although numerous secondary accounts of James Milton Turner’s life list his birth date as…