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In 1915 Governor Elliott Major signed the bill that established Missouri Day.
“…a day commemorative of Missouri history to be observed by the teachers and pupils of schools with the appropriate exercises. The people of the state of Missouri, and the educational, commercial, political, civic, religious and fraternal organizations of the state of Missouri are requested to devote some part of the day to the methodical consideration of the products of the mines, fields, and forests of the state and to the consideration of the achievements of the sons and daughters of Missouri in commerce, literature, statesmanship, science and art, and in other departments of activity in which the state has rendered service to mankind.”
The Missouri Heritage Reader series, published by the University of Missouri under the editorial direction of Rebecca Schroeder, covers the state’s rich cultural heritage.
The following authors from the series will be at the Society to discuss their experiences writing about Missouri history:
- Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering
- German Settlement in Missouri: New Land, Old Ways
- Immigrant Women in the Settlement of Missouri
- Margot McMillen
- Paris, Tightwad, and Peculiar: Missouri Place Names
- Into the Spotlight: Four Missouri Women
- Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History
- Greg Olson
- The Ioway in Missouri
- Mary Collins Barile
- A Companion to the Santa Fe Trail in Missouri (due out November 2009)
The following Missouri Heritage Readers - many signed by the authors - will be available for purchase after the talks:
- Arrow Rock: The Story of a Missouri Village, by Authorene Wilson Phillips
- Blind Boone: Missouri's Ragtime Pioneer, by Jack A. Batterson.
- Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History, by Margot Ford McMillen and Heather Roberson
- Catfish, Fiddles, Mules, and More: Missouri's State Symbols, by John C. Fisher
- Five Stars: Missouri's Most Famous Generals by James F. Muench
- Food in Missouri: A Cultural Stew by Madeline Matson
- George Caleb Bingham: Missouri's Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician, by Paul Nagel
- German Settlement in Missouri: New Land, Old Ways, by Robyn K. Burnett and Ken Luebbering
- Hoecakes, Hambone, and All That Jazz: African American Traditions in Missouri, by Rose M. Nolen
- Immigrant Women in the Settlement of Missouri, by Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering
- The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley: Pioneer of Women's Education in Missouri by Kristie C. Wolferman
- Into the Spotlight: Four Missouri Women, by Margot Ford McMillen and Heather Roberson
- The Ioway in Missouri by Greg Olson
- Jane Froman: Missouri's First Lady of Song, by Ilene Stone
- Jessie Benton Frémont: Missouri's Trailblazer by Ilene Stone and Suzanna M. Grenz
- Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri, by Robert L. Dyer
- M. Jeff Thompson: Missouri's Swamp Fox of the Confederacy by Doris Land Mueller
- Missouri at Sea: Warships with Show-Me State Names, by Richard E. Schroeder
- Missouri Caves in History and Legend, by H. Dwight Weaver
- On Shaky Ground: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812, by Norma Hayes Bagnall
- Orphan Trains to Missouri, by Michael D. Patrick and Evelyn Goodrich Trickel
- Osage in Missouri, by Kristie C. Wolferman
- Paris, Tightwad, and Peculiar: Missouri Place Names, by Margot Ford McMillen
- Quinine and Quarantine: Missouri Medicine through the Years, by Loren Humphrey
- A Second Home: Missouri's Early Schools, by Sue Thomas
- Stories from the Heart: Missouri's African American Heritage compiled by Gladys Caines-Coggswell
- The Trail of Tears across Missouri, by Joan Gilbert
