Register online now for the sixty-third annual Missouri Conference on History to be held virtually on March 10-12. The conference, hosted by the State Historical Society of Missouri, brings together scholars, teachers, and other professional historians to share in the presentation of research, to exchange information on teaching and curriculum, to consider ways to promote the welfare of the profession and general interest in history, and to discuss other concerns common to all historians.
![Lead mine, Jasper County. [Jack Williams Photograph Collection, P0711-025293]](/sites/default/files/styles/mt_teaser/public/2021-01/s3e40_ep18%20news.jpg?itok=jTFCwRCY "Lead mine, Jasper County. [Jack Williams Photograph Collection, P0711-025293]")
![View of town looking east, Hollister, 1916. [Missouri Postcard Collection, P0032-004065-1]](/sites/default/files/styles/mt_teaser/public/2021-01/s3e40_ep18news.png?itok=BssZ-A9q "View of town looking east, Hollister, 1916. [Missouri Postcard Collection, P0032-004065-1]")
The Joplin Globe–Next year marks the 200th anniversary of statehood for Missouri — Aug. 10, to be exact. Almost seven years ago, the 97th Missouri General Assembly put the
![Susan "Suse" Younger, a slave, ca. 1855. [B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection, P0010-024249]]](/sites/default/files/styles/mt_teaser/public/2020-12/s3e39_ep18%20news.png?itok=fE2d8S5_ "Susan \"Suse\" Younger, a slave, ca. 1855. [B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection, P0010-024249]]")
