the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Theodore Pease Russell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John Steele McCormick Collection, R0877]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Theodore-Pease-Russell.jpg?h=db1a3328&itok=6tNlCApu "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]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-10/1.-sac-and-fox.jpg?h=aa59a2db&itok=1y6DpE0c "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]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-06/1.%20Denton%20Jacques%20Snider.jpg?h=f1182d8a&itok=Nm5PmR-N "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]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-St_Louis_Browns.jpg?h=2409fecb&itok=zmo6EN3t "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…
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)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-06/1.%20Charlton%20H.%20Tandy.jpg?h=cd64e863&itok=pQh0LDTO "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]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-11/1.-augustus-tolton.jpg?h=b5104c6a&itok=1ONYRtk_ "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]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Silas%20C.%20Turnbo.jpg?h=2741bb13&itok=Ot1erhP8 "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]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-James-Milton-Turner.jpg?h=d64323c3&itok=nkqu6MYa "James Milton Turner, circa 1870. [Lincoln University]")
Although numerous secondary accounts of James Milton Turner’s life list his birth date as…
The Gentry–Threlkeld–Van Horn Tavern, usually referred to as the Van Horn Tavern, was the last known log…