Missouri History

The cookbook celebrates the state’s many ethnicities and cultures and puts it on your plate.

The State Historical Society of Missouri wants your stories, photos and memories of Route 66 to build a collection and public exhibit in 2026.

Historian Patricia Cleary’s new book details the history of the more than two dozen mounds that once stood in St. Louis.

A new book presents readers of all ages with a colorful curation of Missouri’s weird and wonderful places, people and historical facts.

A longtime Monett Times newspaper reporter has held the vigil annually for more than 30 years in the southwest Missouri town.

Jack Snelling hit the road with a mission: Visit every historic courthouse in Missouri.

Left beneath bridges and inside parking garages, Native American memorials in St. Louis draw advocates' ire.

German immigrants helped shape Missouri’s culture in myriad ways, as detailed in the book “Explore Missouri's German Heritage” and the documentary it inspired.

The Great War depleted the states’ National Guard troops, sending them overseas. Missouri was one of the states that backfilled the domestic duties with unpaid volunteers.

Is there any other regional pizza in the country that elicits as much debate and shame as St. Louis-style? A square-cut, thin-crust pie topped with ooey, gooey Provel cheese, this unconventional pizza is the result of decades of St. Louis ingenuity — and yet, even many locals apologize for their unique creation.