Missouri Life announced its 2026 Show Me the Best Awards in categories including food and drink, outdoor and adventure, and history, culture, and travel. SHSMO is honored to be among the nominees in the history category for Best History Museum. Honestly, we see our fellow nominees as

Retired NASA Astronaut and University of Missouri Professor Emerita Linda Godwin, Ph.D., will be the featured speaker at the State Historical Society of Missouri annual meeting and My Missouri lecture Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Center for Missouri Studies, 605 Elm St., Columbia. The annual

A new exhibition in the William Guitar Little Missouri Gallery of Art welcomes visitors to consider the ways representation, power, and perspective shape our historical understanding of Native American people. Indigenous Identities: From State Sanctioned Portraiture to Native Self

Art historian Matthew Knox Averett, Ph.D., will be giving the African American Experience in Missouri lecture at the State Historical Society of Missouri, 605 Elm St., Columbia, Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. The presentation is titled “Where Frankie Met Johnny: Targee Street and the Making of Black St. Louis