Our Missouri Podcast

This episode features a conversation with Kitty Ledbetter about her new book, "Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads."

Episode Image: May Kennedy McCord sitting on a porch with a guitar, ca. 1930s [Vance Randolph Ozark Folksongs Collection (C3774), SHSMO]

Banner Image: A crowd in Springfield, Missouri, 1952 [Robert Lipscomb Papers (SP0053), SHSMO]

This episode features a conversation with Kimberly Harper about her new book, "Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America."

Episode Image: Main Street in Joplin, Missouri, ca. 1902-1906 [Kay Kirkman and Roger Stinnett Photograph Collection (P0178), SHSMO]

Banner Image: House of Lords, Main Street in Joplin, Missouri, ca. 1900 [Kay Kirkman and Roger Stinnett Photograph Collection (P0178), SHSMO]

This episode features a conversation with Alex Primm about his new book, “Ozark Voices: Oral Histories from the Heartland,” and his 40+ year career alongside the rivers, gravel bars, forests, and people of the Missouri Ozarks.

Episode Image: Agent Tom Wright at the Lake of the Ozarks, 1953 [Missouri Ruralist Photographs (P0030), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Group gathered for a picnic at the Lake of the Ozarks, 1940 [Bernard Dickmann Photograph Collection (S0555), SHSMO]

If you missed her keynote address at the 66th Missouri Conference on History, don't worry, because Sydney Norton joined host Sean Rost to discuss her new book, Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery.

Episode Image: Arnold Krekel, date unknown [Mit Feder Und Hammer: The German Experience in St. Louis Collection (S0941), SHSMO]

In this episode, Matthew Christopher Hulbert joins host Sean Rost to discuss his new book, Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War.

Episode Image: John Newman Edwards, date unknown [Nancy Ehrlich Collection (P0013), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Obelisk grave marker surrounded by fence on James Family Farm, ca. 1898 [Clay County, Missouri, Photograph Collection (P1112), SHSMO]

In this episode, Susan Croce Kelly returns to discuss her new book, Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton.

To listen to Susan's previous appearance on Our Missouri, check out Episode 21.

Episode Image: Woman using a typewriter, date unknown [Arthur Witman Photograph Collection (S0717), SHSMO]

In this episode, host Sean Rost is joined by SHSMO colleagues Kathleen Seale and John Brenner to discuss their memories of the late John Bradbury (1952-2023) as well as his recent book "'My Own Commander': The Civil War Journal of J. J. Sitton, 1863-1865." 

To listen to John Bradbury's earlier appearance on the podcast, please check out Episode 24.

To kick off the "On the Bookshelf" series, Joseph Beilein, Jr. returns to talk about his new book, A Man by Any Other Name: William Clark Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood.

Episode Image: Quantrill’s Raiders Reunion, ca. 1920 [B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection (P0010), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Quantrill’s Raiders Reunion, 1909 [B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection (P0010), SHSMO]

In this episode, host Sean Rost concludes the Historic Missourians series with a focus on philanthropists and conservationists Edward "Ted" Jones and Hilda "Pat" Jones.

Episode Image: Ted and Pat Jones at their home in Williamsburg, Missouri, date unknown [Courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation]

Banner Image:  Three unidentified men fishing in the Meramec River, ca. 1904 [State of Missouri Collection (P0018), SHSMO]

In this episode, SHSMO senior archivist Elizabeth Engel joins host Sean Rost to discuss her recent Historic Missourians biography of artists and conservationists Charles and Elizabeth Schwartz.

Episode Image: Charles and Elizabeth Schwartz with Canadian geese, undated. [Charles and Elizabeth Schwartz Papers (C2217), SHSMO]