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In 1976, Jerry C. Elliott-High Eagle, a Cherokee/Osage physicist, NASA employee, and Medal of Freedom recipient, drafted legislation creating National Native American Awareness Week, the first federally recognized observance of Indigenous cultural heritage. This was followed in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush’s declaration of November as National Native American Heritage ...
Pharmacist and drug store owner Pelham Joseph Robinson Sr. established himself as one of the most influential Black businessmen in St. Louis. His chain of Owl Drug Stores, centered in the historic African American community of Mill Creek, was so widespread that Owl Drug was known as “the Black Walgreens.”
Robinson was born in 1907 in St. Louis to William C. and Luella ...
What drives a person to reach out to strangers across an ocean? What acts of kindness can be considered a form of unconditional love? Is it when you give and expect nothing in return? Is it when you give to others, knowing you’ll never get to meet them in person—even if their country was the enemy just a few years before?
These questions came to mind as I translated th...
Soldiers Memorial’s newest exhibit, Two Minutes to Midnight and the Architecture of Armageddon, explores the height of the Cold War. Photographers Adam Reynolds and Jeanine Michna-Bales capture the uncertainty of the nuclear age, how it transformed American life, and ...
This is the second in a two-part series. Read the first part here.
William Russell, a Virginia native, arrived in St. Louis in February 1804. Russell failed as a farmer and merchant, but his third job as deputy surveyor for the new Louisiana P...
