missouri history

KBIA's Will Morris shares Sehon William's experience of childhood in Columbia as part of Reverberations, a KBIA series featuring oral histories at the State Historical Society of Missouri's archives.

KBIA's Jack Andersen traces how one of Mizzou’s most recognizable spaces transformed alongside the university itself. This piece is part of Reverberations, a series from KBIA that uncovers the wealth of historical information housed within the State Historical Society of Missouri's archives and its Haskell Monroe oral history collection from the 1990s.

KBIA's Ansa Sunil shares the history of Memorial Union as part of Reverberations, a new project at KBIA that is uncovering the wealth of historical information housed within the State Historical Society of Missouri's archives.

KBIA's Robin Crouch shares how Columbia has been shaped by water as part of Reverberations, a new project at KBIA that is uncovering the wealth of historical information housed within the State Historical Society of Missouri's archives.

KBIA's Nora Crutcher McGowan shares Hall Theatre's history as part of Reverberations, a a series from KBIA that uncovers the wealth of historical information housed within the State Historical Society of Missouri's archives.

Historian Andrew Wanko says Route 66’s legacy is one of real person-to-person connection and the true exploration of a place.

Michelle Collins Anderson discusses her historical fiction novels The Flower Sisters and The Moonshine Women. She'll further talk about her work at Unbound Book Festival's Water of Life panel.

The Stars and Stripes Museum and Library, in Bloomfield, Missouri, hosts an annual summer journalism camp for kids. This year the students took over Missouri School of Journalism microphones to interview each other about their families, their lives, and their hopes and dreams.

KBIA's Darren Hellwege visits with two of our state's preeminent historians, Gary Kremer and Bob Priddy, as the State Historical Society of Missouri gets ready to celebrate its 125th anniversary.

LARRY BROWN tells us the true story of a well-known incident involving Alexander Campbell, Wales McCormick, Samuel Clemens - a.k.a. Mark Twain - a sermon,…