Our Missouri

Episode 38: The Border War of 1960-61 (Border Wars, Part 5)

With the announced renewal of the Missouri-Kansas sports rivalry in 2019, Our Missouri opens the first half of Season 3 with an examination of the origins and history behind this rivalry, while also looking at the conflicts that defined Missouri's borders and identity before, during, and after the Civil War. This episode takes the listener back 60 years to the fateful school year of 1960-61 when the rivalry between the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas escalated to such an intense level that both schools debated cancelling future athletic events.

Episode Image: Spectators at a Missouri-Kansas football games, Columbia, Missouri, 1911 [University of Missouri School of Journalism Scrapbook (P0162), SHSMO]

Episode 37: "Bushwhackers" – Joseph M. Beilein Jr. (Border Wars, Part 4)

With the announced renewal of the Missouri-Kansas sports rivalry in 2019, Our Missouri opens the first half of Season 3 with an examination of the origins and history behind this rivalry, while also looking at the conflicts that defined Missouri's borders and identity before, during, and after the Civil War. This episode features a conversation with Joseph M. Beilein Jr. about his book, "Bushwhackers: Guerilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri," published by Kent State University Press.

Episode Image: Quantrill’s Raiders Reunion, 1911 [B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection (P0010), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Joseph M. Beilein Jr. holds a PhD in History from the University of Missouri. Presently, he serves as an associate professor of history at Penn State-Erie, The Behrend College. He is the author of "Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri," editor of "William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerrilla Warfare," and co-editor of "The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth."

Episode 36: Joseph Smith, Lilburn Boggs, & the "Kingdom of Nauvoo" - Benjamin E. Park (Border Wars, Part 3)

With the announced renewal of the Missouri-Kansas sports rivalry in 2019, Our Missouri opens the first half of Season 3 with an examination of the origins and history behind this rivalry, while also looking at the conflicts that defined Missouri's borders and identity before, during, and after the Civil War. This episode features a conversation with Benjamin E. Park about his new book, "Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise & Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier."

Episode Image: Tugboats on the Mississippi River, date unknown [Charles Trefts Photographs (P0034), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Benjamin E. Park holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He also served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Missouri's Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. Presently, he serves as an assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of "American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in an Age of Revolutions." His recent book, "Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise & Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier," was published in 2020.

Episode 35: "The Border between Them" - Jeremy Neely (Border Wars, Part 2)

With the announced renewal of the Missouri-Kansas sports rivalry in 2019, Our Missouri opens the first half of Season 3 with an examination of the origins and history behind this rivalry, while also looking at the conflicts that defined Missouri's borders and identity before, during, and after the Civil War. This episode features a conversation with Jeremy Neely about his book, "The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line," published by the University of Missouri Press.

Episode Image: Birds-eye view of Harrisonville, Missouri, ca. 1902 [State of Missouri Collection (P0018), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Jeremy Neely holds a PhD in History from the University of Missouri. Presently, he serves as an assistant professor of history at Missouri State University. His book, “The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line,” was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2007.

Episode 34: "Commonwealth of Compromise" - Amy Laurel Fluker (Border Wars, Part 1)

With the announced renewal of the Missouri-Kansas sports rivalry in 2019, Our Missouri opens the first half of Season 3 with an examination of the origins and history behind this rivalry, while also looking at the conflicts that defined Missouri's borders and identity before, during, and after the Civil War. This episode features a conversation with Amy Laurel Fluker about her new book, Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri, published by the University of Missouri Press.

Episode Image: Grand Army of the Republic cemetery decoration, date unknown [Charles Trefts Photographs (P0034), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Amy Laurel Fluker holds a PhD in History from the University of Mississippi. Presently, she serves as the Robert W. Reeder I Professor of nineteenth-century American history at Youngstown State University. Her book, Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2020.

Summer Series 2020: Voda Curtis: Suffrage & Civil Rights - Keely Doll (Show-Me Suffragists, Part 4)

This episode focuses on the life of Voda "Bea" Hardy Curtis, and documents the path of her family from slavery to suffrage. The episode also features audio clips from Voda Curtis' 1977 oral history [S0829] housed at the State Historical Society of Missouri's St. Louis Research Center, as well as final thoughts from past oral history interns—Cydney Smith, Cassie Draudt, and Keely Doll—who conducted research on Voda Curtis' life.

Episode Image: International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union members in historical costumes at the fiftieth anniversary of suffrage parade, 1970 [League of Women Voters of St. Louis Records (S0530), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Originally from Naperville, Illinois, Keely Doll is currently a senior at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is pursuing a bachelor's degree in journalism and history. She served as an oral history intern for the State Historical Society of Missouri during Summer 2020.

Summer Series 2020: Carrie Lee Carter Stokes & The WCTU - Janet Olson (Show-Me Suffragists, Part 3)

This episode focuses on the life of Carrie Lee Carter Stokes, and explains how the Dexter (MO) schoolteacher rose to become a prominent leader in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Missouri Equal Suffrage Association.

Episode Image: Temperance rally in New Franklin, Missouri, ca. 1910 [Lilburn A. Kingsbury Collection (C3724), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Janet Olson holds an MA in History from Loyola University in Chicago. She served as the Assistant University Archivist at Northwestern University from 1998-2020. Since 2007, she has served as the part-time Archivist for the Frances Willard House Museum and WCTU Archives.

Summer Series 2020: The Clark Family - Ethan Colbert (Show-Me Suffragists, Part 2)

This episode focuses on the Clark Family of Bowling Green, particularly Genevieve Davis Bennett Clark and Genevieve Clark Thomson, and how discussions of suffrage in their home eventually made it to the halls of Congress.

Episode Image: Honey Schuck, the home of the Clark family, in Bowling Green, Missouri, date unknown [Champ Clark Home Photograph (P0323), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Originally from Pike County, Ethan Colbert currently serves as a reader interest reporter for the Quincy Herald-Whig. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Champ Clark House.

Summer Series 2020: Alma Nash & the Maryville Milieu – Elyssa Ford (Show-Me Suffragists, Part 1)

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.

Episode 33: Life, Death, & Coroner's Inquests – Sarah Lirley McCune (Meet Me in St. Louis, Part 9)

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 19^th 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.