The State Historical Society of Missouri

News & Announcements

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Columbia Research Center and galleries are closed on Mondays

Now available for purchase: A Rough Business: Fighting the Civil War in Missouri, edited with an introduction by William Garrett Piston.

• SHSMO and Missouri State University partner to make collections available in Springfield, Missouri
  
  

  SHSMO and Missouri State University are partnering to make SHSMO manuscript, book, and microfilm collections available in Springfield at the MSU Special Collections and Archives.

• 2012 Missouri Conference on History Awards
  
  

  Check out the winners: Best book published on any historical topic, best Missouri history article, and best student papers presented at the annual conference.

• The April Missouri Historical Review now available to members.

The American Civil War In Missouri collection includes letters and diaries offering valuable insight into how Missourians, both civilians and those in the military, experienced the Civil War.

The Missouri Digital Newspaper Project is a growing collection of digitized historic newspapers published in Missouri from the eighteen hundreds through the early 1920s.

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Events

• May 21 - 8:20 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
  KWOS “Open Air” 950 AM
  
• June 2 - 10:00 a.m.
  Reflections of African American Arrow Rock: 1865-1960
  presentations by: Timothy Baumann, Gary R. Kremer, and Teresa Van Buren Habernal
  
• June 16 - 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
  Finding the Individual and the Iconic in Civil War Documents: A Workshop
  
• July 21 - 1:30 p.m.
  Essex Garner’s Colored Infantry Series:
  Engaging with History through Art
  One-day Exhibition and Gallery Talk
  
• July 29 - 2:00 p.m.
  Benton & Twain: Thomas Hart Benton’s illustrations of Mark Twain
  Exhibition with Opening Event
  
• August 25 - 1:30 p.m.
  Benton’s Year of Peril: An Epic Vision Created in Kansas City
  Steve Sitton, Director of the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio Historic Site
  

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Notable

• Historic Missourians
• Digital Collections
• Directory of Local Historical Societies, Museums, and Genealogical Societies in Missouri
  
• Online Library Catalog
  
• Index to Selected Missouri Newspapers, 1808-1929
• Newspapers on Microfilm at the Society

Exhibits

Research Center - Columbia, Main Gallery 1942: Thomas Hart Benton's Year of Peril
Through June 2012
Research Center - Columbia, Main Gallery The Prices of History: The Legacy of the Price Family in Mid-Missouri