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This book examines the importance of the Mississippi River across time and through the lens of a single city: St. Louis. Features hundreds of maps, artifacts, and fascinating historic images, spanning back to St. Louis's founding and even earlier"--

Companion catalog to the Missouri History Museum exhibit WWI: St. Louis and the Great War. Featuring more than 250 photographs and archival documents from the collections of the Missouri Historical Society and Soldiers Memorial Military Museum--most of which have never been published--this book details how the war touched the city and how its citizens rose to the challenge"--

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Part of the "St Louis Metromorphosis" book series from the Public Policy Research Center. This book reviews the performance of the St Louis region on the standards of growth and development, and identifies several hidden assets that distinguish the region from other metropolitan areas.

John B. Bannon excelled in four distinct capacities: as a pastor of a thriving Catholic congregation in St. Louis, as a chaplain with the First Missouri Confederate Infantry at Pea Ridge, Corinth, and Vicksburg, as a diplomat winning Irish support for the cause of the Confederacy, and as Ireland's greatest preacher in the 1880s.William Barnaby Faherty's latest book, Exile in Erin: A Confederate Chaplain's Story, looks at new historical researc...

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In the late nineteenth century, Jefferson County, Missouri, was striving to emulate its cosmopolitan cousin to the north, St. Louis, while it battled to wipe out the remnants of its frontier lawlessness. For over three years, Mack Marsden was suspected of every major crime in Jefferson County. Though the newspapers labeled him a desperado, he was tried only once and never convicted of any wrongdoing. So when he was ambushed, shotgunned, and le...

This is an account of the years 1820 to 1865 in the life of Malindy, a freeborn Cherokee who was unlawfully enslaved as a child by a Franklin County, Missouri, farmer. Married to a freedman, Malindy gave birth to five children in slavery - creating a family she would fight her whole life to keep together.

Suitable for everyone from kids to adults, this title looks specifically at the history of two resort communities on the shores of Lake Huron in Michigan. It celebrates our common need to get away from the humdrum, and it can be welcome reading for all of us daydreaming of crystalline lakeshores.

Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, Raymond E Maritz and W Ridgely Young built more than a hundred homes in the most affluent neighborhoods of St Louis County. This title presents a collection of their work, featuring photographs, architectural drawings, and original floor plans of homes built in a variety of styles.

Examines the end of the vigilante era in Missouri, with focus on Laura Bullion, Ben Kirkpatrick, William Rudolph, and Ed O'Kelley, the man who murdered Robert Ford"--

In 1959, at the age of twenty-one, Max Starkloff was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. How did this young man with barely a high school education become the leader of a powerful disability rights movement and the founder of the Starkloff Disability Institute? This is his remarkable story.

From the Mormon Wars to the Border Wars to gangs of Bald Knobbers and Bushwhackers, Missouri's reign of vigilante justice during the nineteenth century is unparalleled by any other state in the nation. This book chronicles the implications of vigilantism in Missouri.

Consists of the 166 letters that St Louisan James Love wrote to his fiancee, Eliza Mary "Molly" Wilson, during his Civil War service. This book includes the letters that discusses the war, including activities in Missouri, battles, Love's life as a soldier, and his time in a Confederate prison, and more.

Growing up in the Jim Crow-era South, Frankie Freeman learned lessons about discrimination. She walked places rather than take the segregated streetcar, she felt hurts and vowed privately never to forget. But in her loving family, she also learned positive lessons about living: work hard, get an education, fight injustice, and make a difference. Freeman took all these lessons to Hampton Institute, to Howard University law school, then to her c...

John B. Bannon excelled in four distinct capacities: as a pastor of a thriving Catholic congregation in St. Louis, as a chaplain with the First Missouri Confederate Infantry at Pea Ridge, Corinth, and Vicksburg, as a diplomat winning Irish support for the cause of the Confederacy, and as Ireland's greatest preacher in the 1880s.William Barnaby Faherty's latest book, Exile in Erin: A Confederate Chaplain's Story, looks at new historical researc...

Moving from one century to the next is an appropriate time to reflect upon how past trends frame choices for the St. Louis region's future. These discussions occur in many venues but they can all be more richly informed by analyses of what has been happening within the St Louis metropolitan area during the past five decades.