This episode focuses on Alma Nash and how Maryville's Missouri Ladies Military Band became key participants in the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession. 

Episode Image: Maryville Seminary, ca. 1902 [State of Missouri Collection (P0018), SHSMO]

About the Guest:  Elyssa Ford holds a Ph.D. in History from Arizona State University. Presently, she serves as Associate Professor of History, Honors Program Director, and Public History & Museum Studies Director at Northwest Missouri State University. Her book, "Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo," will be published by the University Press of Kansas in 2020.

While this year's Missouri Conference on History may be over, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode concludes Season 2 and features Sarah Lirley McCune discussing her soon-to-be-released book project, tentatively titled, "An Arc of Death," which examines how coroners interpreted the lives and deaths of 19th Century St. Louisans.

Episode Image: Bernard Feversteins horse-drawn hearse, St. Charles, Missouri, 1916 [John J. Buse Collection (S1083), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Sarah Lirley McCune is an assistant professor of history at Columbia College. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She previously served as a Center for Missouri Studies Fellow.

While this year's Missouri Conference on History may be over, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode features Ed Wheatley, President of the St. Louis Browns Historical Society, discussing his new book, "Baseball in St. Louis: From Little Leagues to Major Leagues."

Episode Image: St. Louis Browns baseball player leaping to catch a ball, date unknown [Arthur Witman Photograph Collection (S0836), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Ed Wheatley is the president of the St. Louis Browns Historical Society. He is also the author of several books, including "St. Louis Browns: The Story of a Beloved Team," "Incredible Cardinals," and "Baseball in St. Louis: From Little Leagues to Major Leagues."

While this year's Missouri Conference on History may be over, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode features Priscilla Dowden-White discussing her book, "Groping toward Democracy: African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949," as well as her current research project on St. Louisan Margaret Bush Wilson.

Episode Image: St. Louis mayor Bernard Dickmann at the dedication of the new medical library at Homer G. Phillips Hospital, 1941 [Bernard Dickmann Photograph Collection (S0555), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Priscilla Dowden-White holds a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University. Presently, she serves as an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

While this year's Missouri Conference on History may be over, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode features Keona Ervin discussing her award-winning book, "Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis," which was published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2017.

Episode Image: Carter Carburetor Protest March, St. Louis, Missouri, 1942 [Arthur Witman Photograph Collection (S0717), SHSMO]

About the Guest:  Keona Ervin holds a Ph.D. in history from Washington University in St. Louis. Presently, she serves as an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

While this year's Missouri Conference on History may be over, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode features Caitlin Yager, Director of Heritage Programs for the Missouri Humanities Council. Caitlin discusses Missouri’s German Heritage Corridor, as well as an upcoming documentary on the German-American community of Hamburg, which was destroyed and its residents, relocated during World War II to make way for a military base and munitions factory in what is today suburban St. Louis.

Episode Image: Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Depot in Hamburg, Missouri, date unknown [John J. Buse Collection (S1083), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Caitlin Yager is the Director of Heritage Programs for the Missouri Humanities Council

To help prepare for this year's Missouri Conference on History, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode features SHSMO curator of art collections Joan Stack discussing editorial cartoons from St. Louis-based artists Daniel Fitzpatrick, Bill Mauldin, and Tom Engelhardt, as well as the upcoming "Battle Lines" and "Missouri Women: Suffrage to Statecraft" exhibits in the Center for Missouri Studies Art Gallery.

Episode Image: An editorial cartoon by Daniel Fitzpatrick entitled “A new era in man's understanding of nature's forces,” 1945 [Daniel Fitzpatrick Collection (F582), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Joan Stack holds a Ph.D. in art history from Washington University. Presently, she serves as the curator of art collections at the State Historical Society of Missouri.

To help prepare for this year's Missouri Conference on History, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode features Tracy Campbell discussing his book, The Gateway Arch: A Biography, published by Yale University Press in 2013.

Episode Image: A section of the St. Louis Arch being installed during construction [Arthur Witman Photograph Collection (C0702), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Tracy Campbell holds a Ph.D. in history from Duke University. Presently, he serves as the E. Vernon Smith and Eloise C. Smith Professor of American History at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of several books, including The Gateway Arch: A Biography.

To help prepare for this year's Missouri Conference on History, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode examines James S. McDonnell and the inner workings of McDonnell Aircraft during Project Mercury and Project Gemini.

Episode Image: McDonnell Aircraft employees inspecting a Gemini capsule, 1966 [Arthur Witman Photograph Collection (S0733), SHSMO]

To help prepare for this year's Missouri Conference on History, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode features A.J. Medlock talking about the origins and history of the State Historical Society of Missouri's St. Louis Research Center, as well as his efforts to collect and preserve unique materials related to the region's history.

Episode Image: Aerial photograph of St. Louis, Missouri, 1935 [Charles Trefts Photographs (P0034), SHSMO]

About the Guest: A.J. Medlock holds a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master of arts in public history from Southeast Missouri State University. Presently, he serves as the Senior Archivist at the St. Louis Research Center.