The Bosnian diaspora in St. Louis is preserving their culture while learning The American Way.

St. Louis Bosnian population is influencing the region's religious life, building economic and civic organizations and partaking in recreation. (Think soccer.)

In this episode, we listen to the oral histories of Margot McMillan. We hear from a river boat captain, a train engineer and an independent woman. These and several dozen other Missourians were the subjects of Margot's late 1970s oral history recordings. At that time, Margot was a young mother of two, a graduate student […]

On January 1, 1939, 1,500 Missourians went on strike.
They were tired of hard work, being poor and living in shacks.
This podcast explores what that strike means today to one Missouri community.

Back in 1939, the world was a different place. For one thing, there were a lot more people involved in farming. In Missouri's Bootheel region, this meant bodies were needed to grow cotton. Under the sharecropper model, those Missourians who grew cotton had no guarantees of a wage. They could be evicted anytime from the […]

Madelyn Paine remembers getting weighed at the Dalton elevator. Diane Pippens feels her light skin helped her pass for white or Mexican when she integrated her town’s high school. William Payne recalls the town’s annual reunion where he met his future wife. It was at Dalton, Missouri’s annual reunion in 2021 that I did my […]

Missouri's cooperative culture is alive and well in Scotland County.

Almost as long as there has been a Missouri, there have been idealists in our midst. In 1844, "Doctor" Wilhelm Keil and his followers established the German Communal Society of Bethel in Northeast Missouri. They were followed by an Icarian outpost in 1858 near St. Louis. In this episode of Mo' Curious, you'll learn about […]

The stones that make up Missouri are old.
Find out how old and how they came to be in this episode.

Mo’ Curious #4 draws on recent oral histories from a trio of long-time Kansas Citians. The episode is a cultural memory of Beacon Hill, an urban neighborhood in transition.