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…
![Mathias Splitlog (Dyut-Ru-Tu-Re), Washington, DC, 1896. [Smithsonian Institution, NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item BAE GN 00976A, photo by William Dinwiddie]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-04/1.%20Mathias%20Splitlog.jpg?h=ab7009da&itok=bgQTiSF4 "Mathias Splitlog (Dyut-Ru-Tu-Re), Washington, DC, 1896. [Smithsonian Institution, NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item BAE GN 00976A, photo by William Dinwiddie]")
The life of Mathias Splitlog is a classic story of a man who went from rags to riches. The son of a French…
![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…
The Barnsley Brothers Cutlery Company was a manufacturer and wholesaler of knives, straight razors…
![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…