Day: April 22, 2022

Judging for the National History Day contest in Missouri is underway statewide as just under 500 students in grades 6 to 12 compete in this year’s virtual contest, which is themed Debate and Diplomacy in History.

Missouri River Relief is hosting Missouri River Days for the first time since 2019. This program provides fourth-graders from Columbia Public Schools with a field trip to the Missouri River, where they will get to experience its muddy waters aboard one of Missouri River Relief’s motorboats.

In this episode of the Mo’ Curious podcast, we learn about the dramatic 1939 sharecroppers strike in Mississippi County, Missouri.

The Poplar Bluff Chamber of Commerce invites you to explore and discover the Ozark Trail. Here is one native Ozarkian's experience.

On this date in Missouri history, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield is established. The battle, the first in Missouri’s long Civil War history, took place on August 10, 1861, west of Springfield.