St. Louis Mercantile Library

More than 300 artifacts and artworks comprise the current exhibition at the Mercantile, which is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River.

For one weekend every year, the J.C. Penney Conference Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis transforms into an art and book lover’s paradise.…

During the mid-1800s, St. Louis had between 20-25 daily newspapers operating concurrently.On Wednesday’s St. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh talked about…

Riddle me this: What surrounds us as Americans that most of us have never directly experienced?If you guessed “our nation’s waterways,” you would be…

If your job were to nourish and to advance a venerable cultural institution so skillfully that its dignity and integrity would be burnished while, at the…

To celebrate a major birthday — say, 50 or older — many hosts serve cake and display photos of the celebrant: baby photos, first steps, awkward…

This weekend the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is hosting its 8th Annual Fine Print, Rare Book & Paper Arts Fair.…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 29, 2012 - When Earl Swift was a kid, building a raft to venture along a big river was just the…

This Sunday an exhibition called “Presidents and Politics” opens at the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri St. Louis.The campaign…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 13, 2011 - If social media had existed back in 1764, you could almost imagine founding father…