Steelville Trail of Tears Remembrance Committee – Go to Website 2025 Highlights from Steelville’s Trail of Tears Project Thanks to supporters like you, 2025 was a year of visible progress and deepening community engagement. Bringing History to Life Reaching People Where They Are Learning, Sharing, and Partnering Events, Film, and the Road Ahead 100 from… Read More »
The PLSS: As a cartographer at law, I am fortunate to work with the GLO (General Land Office) maps developed for the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). Lamentably, the PLSS is the most important national governmental effort you didn’t learn about in school. The US government created GLO plats to map frontier property to sell… Read More »
An Article by the Missouri Humanities’ Archeologist By Erin N. Whitson, M.S. Links added by Chris Dunn The Cherokee People Survived Most of us have heard about Cherokee Removal (or the Trail of Tears) at some point in the past. We’ve all heard the general layout of the story…Cherokee folks did everything in their power… Read More »
Post By: The Missouri Humanities Missouri Humanities is paving a new path in 2023 with our next Signature Series! Join us in 2023 as we consider the movement of people, both voluntary and involuntary, and its influence on the cultural heritage, natural environment, and modern make up of Missouri. Through both… Read More »