Missouri History

Missouri’s champion bur oak is a living landmark that weaves lightning, floods, and generational connections.

Although the shootout between the Dooley and Harris clans at a Doe Run picnic did occur and was indeed a bloody affair, the causes of the conflict are considerably murkier, go back much further, and have little if anything to do with a carnival-ride flirtation.

Immigrants in our history came for the same reasons they do today, but some things are different.

Missouri’s famous feuds comprise bloody chapters in the story of our state.

Seventy-five years ago, Winston Churchill introduced the “Iron Curtain” to Fulton and presaged the Cold War.

Missouri’s role in the early civil rights movement.

The late Missouri artist Lowell Davis leaves a legacy near Carthage.

Meet two dozen innovators from Missouri's past and present.