the State Historical Society of Missouri
Celia, the property of Robert Newsom, stood trial in Fulton, Missouri, in 1855 for the murder of her master, a…
![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.…
![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]")
Following the death of Clermont (Gra-Mon or “Arrow-Going-Home”) in 1796, his son, also known as Clermont, was…
![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]")
![Herman Dreer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, UMSL Black History Project Photograph Collection, S0336-167]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Herman%20Dreer.jpg?h=231045b5&itok=_jirNr2L "Herman Dreer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, UMSL Black History Project Photograph Collection, S0336-167]")
Herman Dreer, a respected Black St. Louis educator and scholar, was born on September 12,…
![Paul Follenius. [State Historical Society of Missouri, William G. Bek Photograph Collection, P0586]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-04/1.%20Paul%20Follenius.jpg?h=9fce5577&itok=_Vv-bUxU "Paul Follenius. [State Historical Society of Missouri, William G. Bek Photograph Collection, P0586]")
![Lloyd Gaines. [University of Missouri School of Law, Lloyd Gaines Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Lloyd-Gaines.jpg?h=416ef11d&itok=iYyUVG7t "Lloyd Gaines. [University of Missouri School of Law, Lloyd Gaines Collection]")
Lloyd Gaines’s efforts to obtain a legal education in Missouri resulted in a Supreme Court…
![Gert Goebel. [Courtesy of Edith Moore]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Gert-Goebel.jpg?h=e6a97a35&itok=BgcFo_EZ "Gert Goebel. [Courtesy of Edith Moore]")
Gert Goebel came to Missouri in 1834 as an eighteen-year-old German immigrant, settling in…