250 Years · 50 States · One Historic Milestone
In May 1804, the Corps of Discovery led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from...
Read more →The Missouri Compromise of 1820 attempted to balance the admission of slave and free state...
Read more →Missouri entered the Union on August 10, 1821, as the 24th state. Its position on the Miss...
Read more →St. Louis emerged as the primary departure point for overland trails heading west during t...
Read more →The Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857 arose from the case of Dred...
Read more →The Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 in St. Louis celebrated the centennial of the Lo...
Read more →Route 66, established in 1926, passed through Missouri on its way from Chicago to Los Ange...
Read more →The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was completed in 1965 as a monument to the westward expansio...
Read more →Kansas City developed a distinctive jazz tradition during the 1930s and 1940s that blended...
Read more →Today, Missouri is home to a diverse economy that includes world-class agricultural produc...
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