the State Historical Society of Missouri
![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…
![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.…
![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 Franklin County,…
![Inez Parker Griggs. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 28, 1907]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-01/1.-inez-parker-griggs.jpg?h=263c755c&itok=wVwreUOa "Inez Parker Griggs. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 28, 1907]")
Inez Parker Griggs was a poet who lived in Rolla, Missouri. The daughter of formerly enslaved individuals,…
![Harold L. Holliday Sr. [Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1969–1970]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-08/1.-harold-holliday-sr.jpg?h=26649f55&itok=SKI26BWb "Harold L. Holliday Sr. [Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1969–1970]")
Harold L. Holliday devoted his career to advancing the cause of civil rights in Missouri. He spent twenty-…
![Jessie Housley. [Your St. Louis and Mine, 1937]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-03/1.-jessie-housley.jpg?h=a66815ff&itok=k5kgpxeq "Jessie Housley. [Your St. Louis and Mine, 1937]")
Jessie Housley was a successful Missouri artist and educator in the mid-twentieth century. She…
![George Husmann. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Men in Agriculture Portraits Collection, P1201-011356]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/2.%20George%20Husmann.jpg?h=516a5cf9&itok=daCK-kpR "George Husmann. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Men in Agriculture Portraits Collection, P1201-011356]")
George Husmann was born on November 4, 1827, in Meyenburg, Prussia, the son of J. H. Martin and Louise…
![Francis White Cloud. Portrait by George Catlin, circa 1844–1845. [Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Francis-White-Cloud.jpg?h=46afd397&itok=EItLaSEK "Francis White Cloud. Portrait by George Catlin, circa 1844–1845. [Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art]")
The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…