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…

Van Horn Tavern in 1913

The Gentry–Threlkeld–Van Horn Tavern, usually referred to as the Van Horn Tavern, was the last known log…

George Graham Vest. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Legislators Portraits, P1084]

George Graham Vest, who served four terms as a US senator from Missouri (1879–1903), was…

Jonas Viles with his wife, Ruth, and their four sons. [Image courtesy of the Boone County Historical Society’s Digital Collections]

Jonas Viles, a longtime professor of history at the University of Missouri, was born in…

Chris Von der Ahe. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45223]

Christian Frederick Wilhelm Von der Ahe, a pioneering figure in early professional baseball…