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Webster Groves got a black eye from "16 in Webster Groves" — but author Don Corrigan says the municipality learned from its moment in the national spotlight.
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The Missouri History Museum’s Thomas Jefferson statue was America’s first public memorial dedicated to its third president in 1913. New interpretive panels will acknowledge that he enslaved more than 600 people.
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Kohn's Kosher Meat and Deli, a family-owned business that's been in operation for near six decades, may soon be in other hands. Customers are wary of the changes a sale may bring, but owner Lenny Kohn is ready to move on.
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The O’Fallon, Illinois, resident started “The History Guy” on YouTube in 2017. The channel has amassed more than 2.7 million views.
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Nineteenth-century Americans collected George Washington’s hair — a way of physicalizing their memory of the country’s first president, writes Keith Beutler.
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The state dinosaur of Missouri was long thought to be a sauropod. Amateur paleontologist Guy Darrough’s recent discovery reveals that Parrosaurus missouriensis is actually a duck-billed dinosaur.
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Mark Kruger discusses "The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland."
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Author Suzanne Corbett shatters myths about St. Louis food innovations and details how many cultures came together in Missouri to eat, cook and imbibe.
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Navajo chef Freddie Bitsoie is partnering with St. Louis restaurant Bulrush on two meals celebrating the cuisine of the Hopewell tradition, which flourished in the Midwest before Europeans colonized the continent. He discusses the cuisine with Bulrush chef/owner Rob Connoley.
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On Aug. 10, 1821, Missouri became the 24th state — the first located west of the Mississippi River and the 12th to allow slavery.