the State Historical Society of Missouri
![George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/George-Washington-Carver.jpg?h=c1b467ab&itok=XYqrNEG3 "George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]")
Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington Carver’s birth.…
![George Catlin posed for this portrait by English landscape artist William Fisk in 1849. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.70.14]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-02/1.%20George%20Catlin%20portrait.jpg?h=63244791&itok=yw4rVy5k "George Catlin posed for this portrait by English landscape artist William Fisk in 1849. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.70.14]")
George Catlin was among the earliest Euro-American artists to paint the Indigenous peoples…
![Cyprian Clamorgan’s The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Library, Lib197-00001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-04/colored-aristocracy.jpg?h=228370f4&itok=O0nidoyJ "Cyprian Clamorgan’s The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Library, Lib197-00001]")
The grandson of Jacques Clamorgan, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote The Colored Aristocracy of St.…
![Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-09/1.-peter-humphries-clark.jpg?h=f348060f&itok=4l1ReKo3 "Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]")
Peter Humphries Clark provided leadership for African American communities in St. Louis and Cincinnati, Ohio…
![1. George Catlin, An Osage Indian Lancing a Buffalo, 1846–1848. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1985.66.567]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-06/1.-clermont.jpg?itok=k9K7zblP "1. George Catlin, An Osage Indian Lancing a Buffalo, 1846–1848. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1985.66.567]")
![Painting titled Cler-mónt, First Chief of the Tribe, by George Catlin, 1834. The portrait is of Clermont II's son, also known as Clermont; there is no known image of Clermont II. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, SAAM-1985.66.29_1]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Clermont%20II.jpg?h=ef4b444f&itok=kE06LUdf "Painting titled Cler-mónt, First Chief of the Tribe, by George Catlin, 1834. The portrait is of Clermont II's son, also known as Clermont; there is no known image of Clermont II. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, SAAM-1985.66.29_1]")
![Oliver Cromwell Cox as he appeared in Lincoln University’s yearbook in 1962. [The Archives, Lincoln University, 1962]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-06/1.%20Oliver%20Cromwell%20Cox.jpg?h=b830025e&itok=YUZObNqW "Oliver Cromwell Cox as he appeared in Lincoln University’s yearbook in 1962. [The Archives, Lincoln University, 1962]")
Oliver Cromwell Cox was arguably one of the most controversial mid-twentieth-century social…
![A detail from Thomas Hutchins’s 1778 map of the Illinois Country showing Ste. Genevieve, Kaskaskia, and Fort de Chartres. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Marie-Joseph%20Deguire.jpg?itok=qusVsjPP "A detail from Thomas Hutchins’s 1778 map of the Illinois Country showing Ste. Genevieve, Kaskaskia, and Fort de Chartres. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]")
During the first half of the eighteenth century, marriages between Native Americans and…
![Jeffrey Deroine (second from right) with Ioways. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Robert Wright Photograph Collection, P0011]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Jeffrey_Deroine.jpg?h=05ab4653&itok=58Uzeivu "Jeffrey Deroine (second from right) with Ioways. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Robert Wright Photograph Collection, P0011]")
Jeffrey Deroine (pronounced Der-oh-NAY) defied many of the limitations placed on enslaved people in early…