St. Louis history

St. Louisans are honoring Tina Turner, the international music superstar who died Wednesday. Turner, who launched her career in St. Louis and became known as the queen of rock 'n' roll, influenced generations of musicians and left a lasting legacy.

Abraham Josephine Riesman’s best-selling book, “Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America,” recounts how the WWE went through an aggressive expansion in the 1980s, including in St. Louis.

Left beneath bridges and inside parking garages, Native American memorials in St. Louis draw advocates' ire.

Fourth grade students from Meramec Elementary learned about the Lewis and Clark expedition during a visit to the Gateway Arch museum, where they took a tour through St. Louis history.

Is there any other regional pizza in the country that elicits as much debate and shame as St. Louis-style? A square-cut, thin-crust pie topped with ooey, gooey Provel cheese, this unconventional pizza is the result of decades of St. Louis ingenuity — and yet, even many locals apologize for their unique creation.

The Griot Museum of Black History has received a $100,000 grant to honor the historic contributions of Black St. Louis women.

The 1904 World's Fair was a beacon of technological advancement in the United States, but the treatment of Filipino and Indigenous people has been long overlooked by mainstream society. One local artist is hoping to change that.

In the years following the Civil War, a plan to move the nation's capital to St. Louis won significant support. Journalist Livia Gershon discussed her new piece in Smithsonian Magazine on St. Louis on the Air.

An abolitionist, minister and newspaper editor, Elijah Lovejoy was the first American journalist slain for his work. Journalist Ken Ellingwood discusses his new biography, "First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery," on "St. Louis on the Air."

Carolyn Cox discussed her book, “The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America" and St. Louis' role as the "Kidnap Capital of America" on "St. Louis on the Air."