History

The newly formed Chinese American Collecting Initiative highlights the long- lost stories of Chinese American immigrants living in St. Louis from the mid-19th century onward.

Missouri is home to more black walnut trees than any other place in the world. Its wild nature and distinct flavor means the black walnut often gets passed over for more popular European varieties — the kinds you normally see in grocery stores and restaurants. But these Missourians are making sure that the state’s native nut, and its importance to the culture of this region, gets its day in the sun.

The 143-year-old document is written in a combination of German and English and contains a label design that is close to what’s on bottles and cans today.

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, long a department of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, will become an independent entity as it widens its mission and recruits partners from outside the Jewish faith.

"Tea on the Terrace” examines how hotel shop talk among 19th- and 20th-century archaeologists affected our understanding of ancient Egypt.

Webster Groves got a black eye from "16 in Webster Groves" — but author Don Corrigan says the municipality learned from its moment in the national spotlight.

The Missouri History Museum’s Thomas Jefferson statue was America’s first public memorial dedicated to its third president in 1913. New interpretive panels will acknowledge that he enslaved more than 600 people.

Kohn's Kosher Meat and Deli, a family-owned business that's been in operation for near six decades, may soon be in other hands. Customers are wary of the changes a sale may bring, but owner Lenny Kohn is ready to move on.

The O’Fallon, Illinois, resident started “The History Guy” on YouTube in 2017. The channel has amassed more than 2.7 million views.

Nineteenth-century Americans collected George Washington’s hair — a way of physicalizing their memory of the country’s first president, writes Keith Beutler.