University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
The Mormon presence in nineteenth-century Missouri was uneasy at best and at times flared into violence fed by misunderstanding and suspicion. By the end of 1838, blood was shed, and Governor Lilburn Boggs ordered that Mormons were to be “exterminated or driven from the state.”
The Missouri...
by Greg Olson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Although their ancestors came from the Great Lakes region and they now live in several midwestern states, the Ioway (Baxoje) people claim a rich history in Missouri dating back to the eighteenth century. Living alongside white settlers while retaining their traditional way of life, the tribe eventually...
by James W. Endersby, William T. Horner
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Winner, 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book Award
In 1936, Lloyd Gaines’s application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university’s decision. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) was the first in a long line...
Daring to Be Different
Missouri's Remarkable Owen Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
In the 1800s, American women were largely restricted to the private sphere. Most had no choice but to spend their lives in the home, marrying in their teens and living only as wives, mothers, and pillars of domesticity. Even as the women’s movement came along midcentury, it focused more on gaining...
Natural Missouri
Working with the Land
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
In Natural Missouri: Working with the Land, Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them. Over a period of three years, he roamed all over the state, visiting such different places as Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, Pomme...
Arrow Rock
The Story of a Missouri Village
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Arrow Rock, so named because Native Americans once went there to shape their arrowheads from the flint found along the Missouri River, is a small historic village. Today fewer than one hundred people call Arrow Rock home, but its scenic location and rich history continue to attract thousands of visitors...
What the River Carries
Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
In this informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, Lisa Knopp explores the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, rivers she has come to understand and cherish. At the same time, she contemplates how people experience landscape, identifying three primary...
Women in Missouri History
In Search of Power and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Women in Missouri History is an exceptional collection of essays surveying the history of women in the state of Missouri from the period of colonial settlement through the mid-twentieth century. The women featured in these essays come from various ethnic, economic, and racial groups, from both urban...
The Missouri State Penitentiary
170 Years inside "The Walls"
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Asked how the Missouri State Penitentiary compared to other famous prisons, a historian and former prison administrator replied, “ It’s older and meaner.” For 168 years, it was everything other prisons were and more.
In The Missouri State Penitentiary, Jamie Pamela Rasmussen recounts...
Missouri Law and the American Conscience
Historic Rights and Wrongs
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Until recently, many of Missouri’s legal records were inaccessible and the existence of many influential, historic cases was unknown. The ten essays in this volume showcase Missouri as both maker and microcosm of American history. Some of the topics are famous: Dred Scott’s slave freedom suit,...
Strong Advocate
The Life of a Trial Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In Strong Advocate, Thomas Strong, one of the most successful trial lawyers in Missouri’s history, chronicles his adventures as a contemporary personal injury attorney. Though the profession is held in low esteem by the general public, Strong entered the field with the right motives: to help victims...
The Original Rush Limbaugh
Lawyer, Legislator, and Civil Libertarian
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Born at the end of the nineteenth century into a farming family of modest means in southeastern Missouri, Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. led a distinguished professional life as an attorney, legislator, and special ambassadorial representative of the United States. Today his descendants...
by Robert J. Willoughby
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Written in a unique biographical format, Robert Willoughby interweaves the stories of six brothers who shaped the American trans-Mississippi West during the first five decades of the nineteenth century. After migrating from French Canada to St. Louis, the brothers Robidoux—Joseph, Francois, Antoine,...
The Ozarks in Missouri History
Discoveries in an American Region
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013
Interest in scholarly study of the Ozarks has grown steadily in recent years, and The Ozarks in Missouri History: Discoveries in an American Region will be welcomed by historians and Ozark enthusiasts alike. This lively collection gathers fifteen essays, many of them pioneering efforts in the field,...