the State Historical Society of Missouri
![The editorial room of the Westliche Post, circa 1870. The paper’s prominent figures included Carl Schurz (fourth from left, seated at table), Emil Preetorius (sixth from left), and Joseph Pulitzer (not pictured). [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N01710]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-01/1.-german-press-in-missouri.jpg?h=afc47d21&itok=XA2t2vBK "The editorial room of the Westliche Post, circa 1870. The paper’s prominent figures included Carl Schurz (fourth from left, seated at table), Emil Preetorius (sixth from left), and Joseph Pulitzer (not pictured). [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N01710]")
Of all the ethnic groups to settle in Missouri, none embraced the press more vigorously than the Germans.…
![A muddy road in Lafayette County, Missouri, circa 1910s. At the dawn of the automobile era, the predicament of drivers in Missouri and elsewhere sparked a nationwide Good Roads Movement. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs, C3888-G0043]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-11/1.-good-roads-movement.jpg?h=0cd267b8&itok=cLdsW5XX "A muddy road in Lafayette County, Missouri, circa 1910s. At the dawn of the automobile era, the predicament of drivers in Missouri and elsewhere sparked a nationwide Good Roads Movement. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs, C3888-G0043]")
Two convoys of army trucks left St. Louis and Kansas City on September 27, 1920. Their mission was to travel…
Kate Leila Gregg, a professor of English at Lindenwood College in St.…
![W. C. Handy playing at the fifth annual American Negro Music Festival in St. Louis’s Sportsman’s Park in 1944. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Arthur Witman 120mm Photograph Collection (S0732), 732.31462]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Handy-at-Sportsman%27s-Park.jpg?h=3922e451&itok=pT3BzbVU "W. C. Handy playing at the fifth annual American Negro Music Festival in St. Louis’s Sportsman’s Park in 1944. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Arthur Witman 120mm Photograph Collection (S0732), 732.31462]")
Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri,…
![Jean Harlow in a publicity photo. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, ID# TH-190010]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Jean-Harlow-Pub-Still.jpg?h=4cc55283&itok=QHj0lS7X "Jean Harlow in a publicity photo. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, ID# TH-190010]")
Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. Her father, Mont Clair…
![Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Phoebe-Apperson-Hearst.jpg?h=1b8b84bf&itok=qbqmm_sb "Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]")
When she was a little girl in pigtails, Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson sometimes rode on the…
![William Hirth. [Boone County Historical Society, Henry Holborn Studio Photography Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20William%20Hirth.jpg?h=e5a74f32&itok=MB2afVqJ "William Hirth. [Boone County Historical Society, Henry Holborn Studio Photography Collection]")
Born in Tarrytown, New York, on May 28, 1875, William Hirth moved to Missouri with his…
![Hooker Cut as it looked upon completion in 1945. This view is looking east on Route 66. [Courtesy of Missouri State Archives, Missouri Department of Transportation Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-04/1.-hooker-cut.jpg?itok=dhAd3zbv "Hooker Cut as it looked upon completion in 1945. This view is looking east on Route 66. [Courtesy of Missouri State Archives, Missouri Department of Transportation Collection]")
By the middle of 1940, Europe was engulfed in war. On September 16, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed legislation…
Born on April 27, 1896, at Winters, Texas, Rogers Hornsby began his professional baseball…
![Louis Houck visiting one of his rail lines. [Southeast Missouri State University, Special Collections]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-01/1.-louis-houck.jpg?h=64cd13ab&itok=N9mOp8Ap "Louis Houck visiting one of his rail lines. [Southeast Missouri State University, Special Collections]")
Often credited as being the “Father of Southeast Missouri,” Louis Houck was a lawyer, journalist,…