Missouri

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/18/2023
  

  The Fight for the Soul of a Missouri School Board

  by Sue Halpern

  Even in a conservative community in southwestern Missouri, a grassroots group of parents and students has rallied to oppose right-wing efforts to restrict books available in the local public schools. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/1/2021
  

  What It Means That Ellie Kemper Was Queen of the “Racist” Veiled Prophet Ball

  The social rituals of the white elite of St. Louis are historically difficult to separate from the rituals of white supremacy, as a social media blowup involving the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt actress showed this week.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  

  The Ill-Fated Idea to Move the Nation’s Capital to St. Louis

  In the aftermath of the Civil War, a surprising number of Americans thought moving the capital (and the Capitol building itself) to St. Louis was a good idea, say historians Adam Arenson and Walter Johnson. 

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  1/13/2021
  

  Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands

  by Steven Lubet

  Senator Josh Hawley arguably helped incite a mob to invade the Capitol to thwart the certification of Biden's victory. Missouri's antebellum senator David Rice Atchison helped incite a civil war in Kansas in 1854. 

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• 10/04/2020
  

  A Personal Encounter with White Supremacy

  by Robert Huddleston

  A lynching in the author's Missouri hometown in 1936 demonstrates the danger of white acquiescence to prejudice and racism. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  09/09/19
  

  Photos of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair

  by Alan Taylor

  In April 1904, St. Louis opened its doors to the world for what was officially called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, but was widely known as the St. Louis World’s Fair. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/19
  

  The Missouri Museum That Churchill Built

  The exhibition focuses on Churchill’s journey, but it builds context through immersive galleries of World War I trenches, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the London Blitz.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  5-7-13
  

  The Midwest honours Churchill

  ...The year was 1946. Winston Churchill stood in a small Midwestern college gymnasium in Fulton, Missouri, just a few miles to the west of St Louis. He was accompanied by President Harry Truman and had been driven to the speech by the grandfather of one of my co-workers. And his speech, later to be called The Iron Curtain Speech, would resonate from the halls of Westminster College, and be heard throughout the world.Today, those echoes are still being heard, and are being amplified in the US by the National Churchill Museum, a museum recognised by the US Congress as "America's National Churchill Museum" and built on the site of that 1946 speech. The museum, staff, volunteers and supporters are dedicated to commemorating and celebrating the life, times, and distinguished career of Sir Winston Churchill, and inspiring current and future leaders by his example of resilience, determination and resolution.And it was the museum that drew leaders from across the Midwest, elected officials and representatives of Her Majesty's Government to St Louis to honour Sir Winston and to present the Churchill Leadership Medal to former US ambassador, Stephen Brauer.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  5-3-13
  

  Murray Polner: Review of Edward Achorn's "The Summer of Beer and Whiskey" (PublicAffairs, 2013)

  Murray Polner wrote “Branch Rickey: A Biography.”

• SOURCE: St. Louis CBS
  3-25-13
  

  Revolutionary War battlefield lies beneath future ballpark village site

  ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Even life-long St. Louis residents may not realize that a big battle was once fought on what is now the site of Ballpark Village, which is in the early stages of development just north of Busch Stadium.Interestingly, this wasn’t a conflict during the U.S. Civil War, but the Revolutionary War.The “Battle of St. Louis” — also known as the “Battle of Fort San Carlos” — took place in May 1780, and downtown looked much different 233 years ago.“The early French city of St. Louis had a wall that enclosed it on three sides, and the fourth side was the Mississippi River,” notes Michael Fuller, history professor at St. Louis Community College-Meramec and one of the foremost experts on the battle....