missouri history

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,…

A new $35 million headquarters for the State Historical Society of Missouri is included in a bill awaiting Governor Jay Nixon's signature.The Columbia…

So, you know your Missouri and CoMo history, and you think you know all about “ragtime” musician Blind Boone, yeah? Think again. If you think he was all…