history

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Still Resonates With Survivor Nearly 50 Years Later

Erin Williams — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:00:00 +0000

Mo. holds contest focused on historic records

The Associated Press — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:52:13 +0000

A new contest is designed to encourage Missouri residents to scour historic records held by the state's public institutions.

The Great Missouri Treasure Hunt is sponsored by the Missouri State Archives to promote awareness of historic records available on the Internet.

Participants will enter stories they unearthed from online records or documents. Entries will be broken down into family history, Civil War history and Missouri history.

New documentary sheds light on the story of Pruitt-Igoe

Libby Franklin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:32:19 +0000

The Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis was once considered the template for post-war public housing, a national model. For awhile it was—until it wasn’t. The high rise complex was constructed in 1954. Two decades later, and by then notorious, Pruitt-Igoe was a pile of rubble, imploded and bulldozed into history. What went wrong and why? That’s the subject of a new documentary film called The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History. Directed by Chad Freidrichs, the film will have its St. Louis premiere this Saturday at the Missouri History Museum.

Mo. Supreme Court cases from 1800s to go on Web

The Associated Press and Kelsey Proud — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:09:24 +0000

History buff? Legal enthusiast? Generally curious about Missouri's past? Get excited.

The Missouri State Archives will be posting thousands of old state Supreme Court cases online for the public to view beginning late next year.

The Secretary of State's office says the State Archives has received a grant of more than $148,000 from the federal government for the project.

History, comedy, and baseball meet in Bobby Norfolk's "Shadowball"

Libby Franklin — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:56:40 +0000

Bobby Norfolk was driving somewhere in 2009 when NPR's Fresh Air stopped him in his tracks. He remembers the interview with author Larry Tye as "the most compelling hour of listening" he's ever experienced. Tye's biography of Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige started Norfolk on a journey that's culminated in his latest one man show, Shadowball: The Negro Baseball Leagues.