Zoë Byrd Akins was born on October 30, 1886, in Humansville, Missouri, the second of three children of Thomas…
The Ben Bolt Theatre was a spectacular building that stood for half a century as a notable…
Robert Russell Bennett was born on June 15, 1894, in Kansas City, Missouri, the only son of…
Kenneth Brown Billups Sr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 14, 1918, the son of…
One of the key St. Louis businessmen and philanthropists of his generation in St. Louis,…
Among the early artists to explore the trans-Mississippi River frontier, Karl Bodmer’s stay…
George Catlin was among the earliest Euro-American artists to paint the Indigenous peoples…
Kate Chopin began and ended her life in St. Louis, with an interlude as a young wife and mother in New…
Born on June 22, 1845, in Strasbourg, France, Edmond Jacques Eckel demonstrated an early…
Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri,…