Collections in the holdings at the State Historical Society of Missouri reflect the evolution of gender roles and women’s status over the course of the state’s history. The experiences of Missouri women are documented in scrapbooks, professional and personal papers, organizational records, correspondence, news clippings, and more. These collections illustrate the important roles Missouri women have played in the state’s development. Examples of the Society’s holdings include the papers of DeVerne Calloway, an activist in St. Louis who became the first black woman elected to Missouri’s House of Representatives, and the papers of Ellen “Nell” Quinlan Donnelly Reed, a successful entrepreneur in Kansas City.
Articles from Missouri Historical Review and Missouri Times
- Andrews, Gregg. "A Pike County Lawyer Goes to the Penitentiary: The Strange Case of 'Miss Lou' Collins, 1921-1923."
Missouri Historical Review 113, no. 3 (April 2019): 166-184. - Brandimarte, Cynthia Ann "Fannie Hurst: A Missouri Girl Makes Good."
Missouri Historical Review 81 (April 1987): 275-295. - Brenner, John, and Harper, Kim, edits and annotations. "The Civil War Prison Diary of Lizzy Powell."
Missouri Historical Review 112 (October 2017): 46-70. - Brown-Kubisch, Linda "Show Me Missouri History: Celebrating the Century."
Part 3: Missouri Historical Review 94 (July 2000): 434-462. - Bruce, Janet "Of Sugar and Salt and Things in the Cellar and Sun: Food Preservation in Jackson County in the 1850s."
Missouri Historical Review 75 (July 1981): 417-447. - Caldwell, Dorothy J. "Carry Nation, a Missouri Woman, Won Fame as a Kansas Crusader."
Missouri Historical Review 63 (July 1969): 461-488. - Christensen, Lawrence O. "Being Special: Women Students at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy."
Missouri Historical Review 83 (October 1988): 17-35. - Clemens, Cyril "The True Character of Mark Twain's Wife."
Missouri Historical Review 24 (October 1929): 40-49. - Cottrell, Debbie Mauldin "Mount Holyoke of the Midwest: Virginia Alice Cottey, Mary Lyon, and the Founding of the Vernon Seminary for Young Ladies."
Missouri Historical Review 90 (January 1996): 187-198. - Crighton, John "The Columbia Female Academy: A Pioneer in Education for Women."
Missouri Historical Review 64 (January 1970): 177-196. - Dains, Mary K. "Forty Years in the House: A Composite Portrait of Missouri Women Legislators."
Missouri Historical Review 87 (January 1993): 150-167.
"Missouri Women in Historical Writing."
Missouri Historical Review 83 (July 1989): 417-428.
"The Congressional Campaign of Luella St. Clair Moss."
Missouri Historical Review 82 (July 1988) 386-407.
"Women Pioneers in the Missouri Legislature."
Missouri Historical Review 85 (October 1990): 40-52. - Dewitt, Petra. "Heroines on the Home Front: World War I and the Council of National Defense's Woman's Committee, Missouri Division."
Missouri Historical Review 112 (April 2018): 169-188. - Dobkins, Linda Harris "What Men Expected, What Women Did: The Political Economy of Suffrage in St. Louis, 1920-1928."
Missouri Historical Review 109 (October 2014): 1-17. - Doerschuk, Albert N. "Extracts from War-Time Letters, 1861-1864."
Missouri Historical Review 23 (October 1928): 99-110. - Ehrlich, George, and Sherry Piland "The Architectural Career of Nelle Peters."
Missouri Historical Review 83 (January 1989): 161-176. - Ekberg, Carl J. "A Parisian Woman in Colonial Ste. Genevieve."
Missouri Historical Review 114, no. 2 (January 2020): 105-120. - Ford, Elyssa. "'We Sure Led the Parade:' Alma Nash, the Missouri Ladies Military Band, and the Push for Women's Suffrage from Rural Missouri to the Nation's Capital."
Missouri Historical Review 113, no. 3 (April 2019): 145-165. - Forester, Rachel. "From the Stacks: Early Women Architects of Kansas City: The Mary Rockwell Hook Papers."
Missouri Historical Review 113, no. 3 (April 2019): 206-209. - Fraser, Caroline. "Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Making of an American Icon."
Missouri Historical Review 113, no. 2 (January 2019): 94-104. - Giffen, Jerena East "Add a Pinch and a Lump": Missouri Women in the 1820s."
Missouri Historical Review 65 (July 1971): 478-504. - Graham, Margaret Baker "Stories of Everyday Living: The Life and Letters of Margaret Bruin Machette."
Missouri Historical Review 93 (July 1999): 367-385. - Griffin, Maude E. "Vinnie Ream: Portrait of a Sculptor."
Missouri Historical Review 56 (April 1962): 230-243. - Guinn, Lisa G. "Building Useful Women" from the Depths of Poverty: The Founding and Establishment of the Girls' Industrial Home and School in St. Louis, 1853-1916."
Missouri Historical Review 100 (April 2006): 125-140. - Harris, Charles F. "Catalyst for Terror: The Collapse of the Women’s Prison in Kansas City."
Missouri Historical Review 89 (April 1995): 290-306. - Hoffert, Sylvia. "The Emancipation of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly, St. Louis, 1847-1860."
Missouri Historical Review 112 (July 2018): 243-259. - Jervey, Edward D., James E. Moss "From Virginia to Missouri in 1846: The Journal of Elizabeth Ann Cooley."
Missouri Historical Review 60 (January 1966): 162-206. - Kemper, Mary Lee "Civil War Reminiscences at Danville Female Academy."
Missouri Historical Review 62 (April 1968): 314-320. - Kempker, Erin "The Union, the War, and Elvira Scott."
Missouri Historical Review 95 (April 2001): 287-301. - Kenney, Anne R. "She Got to Berlin": Virginia Irwin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch War Correspondent."
Missouri Historical Review 79 (July 1985): 456-479. - Korner, Barbara O. "Duchesne: A Model of Action."
Missouri Historical Review 86 (July 1992): 341-362. - Kremer, Gary R. "Strangers to Domestic Virtues: Nineteenth-Century Women in Missouri Prison."
Missouri Historical Review 84 (April 1990): 293-310. - Kremer, Gary R., and Cindy M. Mackey "Yours for the Race: The Life and Work of Josephine Silone Yates."
Missouri Historical Review 90 (January 1996): 199-215. - Lander, Bryon G. "The Making of Missouri's Equal Pay Law and the Legislative Process."
Missouri Historical Review 77 (April 1983): 310-328. - Lee, Janice "Administrative Treatment of Women Students at Missouri State University, 1868-1899."
Missouri Historical Review 87 (July 1993): 372-386. - Ling, Huping "Sze-Kew Dun: A Chinese-American Woman in Kirksville."
Missouri Historical Review 91 (October 1996): 35-51. - Lukomski, Jennifer "From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia: The National Women and Media Collection."
Missouri Historical Review 101 (April 2007): 183-186. - McCune, Sarah Lirley. “The Untimely Death of Annie Roberts and the Politics of Abortion in Late Nineteenth-Century St. Louis.”
Missouri Historical Review 111 (April 2017): 189-203. - McCune, Sarah Lirley. “Death of a Prostitute: Suicide and Respectability in St. Louis, 1875 to 1900.”
Missouri Historical Review 109 (January 2015): 108-127. - Miller, Thomas H., interviewer; annotations by Kimberly Harper. "Outside These Walls Someplace There Was a God:" An Interview with World War II Prison Camp Survivor Betsy Herold Heimke, Part 1-2."
First article: Missouri Historical Review 112 (July 2018): 280-300.
Second article: Missouri Historical Review 113 (October 2018): 41-57. - Morgan, Georgia Cook. "India Edwards: Distaff Politician of the Truman Era."
Missouri Historical Review 78 (April 1984): 293-310. - Morris, Monia Cook "The History of Woman Suffrage in Missouri, 1867-1901."
Missouri Historical Review 25 (October 1930): 67-82. - Moss, Carolyn J. "Kate Field: The Story of a Once-Famous St. Louisan."
Missouri Historical Review 88 (January 1994): 157-175. - Nickell, Frank, and Cox, Jessica. "From the Stacks: Amy Husband Kimmel and the Wednesday Club of Cape Girardeau."
Missouri Historical Review 110 (January 2016): 132-135. - Painter, Mrs. W. R. "Achievements of the Missouri D. A. R."
Missouri Historical Review 20 (April 1926): 382-387. - Pedersen, Sharon "Married Women and the Right to Teach in St. Louis, 1941-1948."
Missouri Historical Review 81 (January 1987): 141-158. - Pickle, Linda S. "Stereotypes and Reality: Nineteenth-Century German Women in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 79 (April 1985): 291-312. - Read, Georgia Willis "Women and Children on the Oregon-California Trail in the Gold-Rush Years."
Missouri Historical Review 39 (October 1944): 1-23. - Romeo, Sharon. "'The First Morning of Their Freedom': African American Women, Black Testimony, and Military Justice in Civil War Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 110, no. 3 (April 2016): 196-216. - Scott, Mary Semple "History of Woman Suffrage in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 14 (April-July 1920): 281-384. - Sporleder, Josephine. "From the Stacks: The Women as Change Agents Oral History Collection."
Missouri Historical Review 111 (July 2017): 304-307. - Stepenoff, Bonnie "Mother and Teacher as Missouri State Penitentiary Inmates: Goldman and O'Hare, 1917-1920."
Missouri Historical Review 85 (July 1991): 402-421.
"Freedom and Regret: The Dilemma of Kate Chopin."
Missouri Historical Review 81 (July 1987): 447-466. - Sundberg, Sara Brooks, et al. "Championing Women at the Grassroots: The Suffrage Movement in Warrensburg, Missouri, 1890-1920."
Missouri Historical Review 116 (April 2022): 238-254. - Templin, Lucinda de Leftwich "Two Illustrious Pioneers in the Education of Women in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 21 (April 1927): 420-437. - Thompson, Dorothy Brown "A Young Girl in the Missouri Border War."
Missouri Historical Review 58 (October 1963): 55-69. - Towne, Ruth Warner "Marie Turner Harvey and the Rural Life Movement."
Missouri Historical Review 84 (July 1990): 384-403. - Vaughan, Alma "Pioneer Women of the Missouri Press."
Missouri Historical Review 64 (April 1970): 289-305. - Welsh, Donald H. "Martha J. Woods Visits Missouri in 1857."
Part I: Missouri Historical Review 55 (January 1961): 109-123.
Part II: Missouri Historical Review 92 (July 1998): 300-392. - Wolfe, Margaret Ripley "Rumors of a Little Rebellion in Dixie: Real Women and Their Region."
Missouri Historical Review 92 (January 1998): 106-118.
"'Missouri Day' Program for Missouri Club Women."
Missouri Historical Review 9 (July 1915): 241-247.
Catalog
Many of the State Historical Society’s holdings are included in the SHSMO online catalog. The State Historical Society holds numerous books on the history of women in Missouri, the Midwest, and the United States generally. The broadest term to search for women is simply “Women.” For a more specific search on women in Missouri, add the subject term “Missouri” to your search.
Historic Missourian Biographies
The State Historical Society’s Historic Missourians website has an entire category devoted to women in Missouri, providing over 35 biographies on Missouri women. Each biography includes images, primary resources, and other references for further study.
Manuscripts
The State Historical Society of Missouri manuscript collections reflect the varied roles women have undertaken and the causes they have supported and chronicle women's lives from childhood to old age.
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Highlighted Collections
National Women in Media
Established in 1987, the National Women and Media Collection held by the State Historical Society of Missouri documents the roles women have played in media fields, both as media employees and as objects of coverage, how those roles have altered over time, and how attitudes of and toward women have changed.
A selection of these materials have been digitized and are available online.
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Missouri Association of Colored Women's Clubs Records
The Missouri Association of Colored Women's Clubs Records collection includes the records of the state organization and member clubs of an association established to improve the status of black women in the home and community. The records include correspondence, financial records, conference files and programs, and information on the history of the organization and its member clubs.
Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online.
Newspapers
During the nineteenth century, many women who were related to Missouri editors and publishers assisted their husbands, fathers, and brothers in newspaper work, from typesetting to editing and writing for the papers. While much of this early work went unnoticed, by the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth, a number of women were beginning to gain recognition in the newspaper business.
For a list of all digitized newspapers, visit the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project.
For a list of newspapers on microfilm at the State Historical Society of Missouri, visit the newspaper catalog.
| County | City | Title | Also Available On | Date Range | Name/Role/Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audrain | Vandalia | Vandalia Leader | Microfilm | 1880-1882; 1895-1898; 1901-present (incomplete) | Lily Herald Frost, Editor, 1907-1922 |
| Boone | Rocheport | Rocheport Progress | Microfilm | 1908-1917 | Annie Chapman, Editor and Publisher, 1906-1917 |
| Franklin | St. Clair | St. Clair Chronicle | Microfilm | 1927-1977 | Dorothy O. Moore, Publisher, 1952-1985 |
| Gasconade | Hermann | Hermann Advertiser | Microfilm | 1875-1877 | Christina Graf, Editor and Publisher, 1874-1877 |
| Gasconade | Hermann | Hermann Advertiser-Courier | Microfilm | 1877-1993 | Christina Graf, Editor and Publisher, 1877-1880 |
| Gasconade | Hermann | Hermanner Volksblatt | Microfilm | 1860-1872 | Christina Graf, Editor and Publisher, 1870-1873 |
| Gasconade | Hermann | Hermanner Volksblatt | Microfilm | 1875-1879 | Christina Graf, Editor and Publisher, 1874-1880 |
| Gentry | King City | King City Democrat | Microfilm | 1898-1899; 1903; 1905-1918 (incomplete) | Maggie A. Bowman, Editor, 1892-1918 |
| Greene | Walnut Grove | Walnut Grove Tribune | Microfilm | 1904-1918 | Junia E. Heath, Editor and Publisher, 1903-1916 |
| Grundy | Spickard | Grundy County Gazette | Microfilm | 1901-1907; 1910-1922 | Jennie Dickson and Artie Dickson (sisters), Editors, 1910-1922 |
| Grundy | Spickard | Spickard Herald and Grundy County Gazette | Microfilm | 1907-1910 | Jennie Dickson and Artie Dickson (sisters), Editors, 1907-1910 |
| Harrison | Bethany | Bethany Clipper | Microfilm | 1905-1922 | Ada L. Wightman (with brother Sam Wightman), Editor and Publisher, 1905-? |
| Henry | Clinton | Clinton Eye | Microfilm | 1885-present | Amanda E. Moore Woolf (aka “Shawnee Shifters”), Columnist, 1891-1939 |
| Jasper | Webb City | Webb City Daily Register | Microfilm | 1903-1907 | Alice Creswell Rozelle, Reporter, Editor, and Publisher, 1903-1918 |
| Jasper | Webb City | Webb City Register | Microfilm | 1907-1917 | Alice Creswell Rozelle, Reporter, Editor, and Publisher, 1903-1918 |
| Johnson | Holden | Holden Enterprise | Microfilm | 1876-1937 | Dora J. Sankey, Editor, 1876-? |
| Macon | New Cambria | New Cambria Leader | Microfilm | 1914-1961 | Editors and Publishers: G. and Nellie Hunton, 1920-1926; Frank and Bettie Robertson, 1926-1943; Jennie Jones Robertson (second wife of Frank), 1947-1950 |
| Marion | Hannibal | Hannibal Daily Courier | Microfilm | 1873-1889 | Julia M. Bennett, Editor, 1879-? |
| Newton | Newtonia | Newton County News | Microfilm | 1890-1907 | Eva and Fidelia Mize (sisters), Editors, 1890-1907 |
| Pettis | Sedalia | Rosa Pearle’s Paper | Microfilm | 1894-1909 | Elizabeth Dugan, Publisher, 1894-1911 |
| Pettis | Sedalia | Sedalia Weekly Bazoo | Microfilm | 1871-1895 | Elizabeth Dugan, Editor and Reporter, 1872 |
| Phelps | Rolla | Rolla Herald | Microfilm | 1877-1953 | Edwarda McCrae Woods, Publisher, 1899-1942 |
| Platte | Dearborn | Dearborn Democrat | Microfilm | 1898-1977 | Nancy Jane “Jennie” Watson, Editor, 1905-? |
| Pulaski | Waynesville | Pulaski County Democrat | Microfilm | 1902-1917 | Mary Louise Wheeler, Editor and Publisher, 1906-1912 |
| Shelby | Shelbina | Shelbina Democrat | Microfilm | 1870-1918 | Martha Jewett, Editor, 1902-1910 |
| Taney | Forsyth | Taney County Republican | Microfilm | 1895-1992 | Mary Elizabeth Prather Mahnkey, Columnist, 1930-1948 |
| Wright | Hartville | Wright County Republican | Microfilm | 1911-1957 | Junia E. Heath, Editor and Publisher, 1916-? |
On Demand Programs
"Votes for Missouri Women!"
In 2020, as the US commemorated the centennial of the 19th Amendment that gave women the vote, the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection collaborated on the two-part video series "Votes for Missouri Women!" and created the exhibition Missouri Women: Suffrage to Statecraft.
"Earnest Endeavour": Missouri Women and the Work of Civil War Commemoration
As part of the SHSMO Fall Lecture Series, we welcomed speaker Amy Laurel Fluker, the Robert W. Reeder I Professor of nineteenth-century American history at Youngstown State University. Watch as Fluker discusses Civil War commemoration in Missouri as pursued most often by women and from both sides of the conflict in a free video from SHSMO On Demand.
Experiences of African American Women in Missouri
Designed to offer the community opportunities to reach a new understanding of present-day Missouri, the African American Experience in Missouri Lecture Series is curated by Keona K. Ervin, history professor at the University of Missouri–Columbia, and SHSMO executive director Gary Kremer, both Center for Missouri Studies fellows known for research on African American history. Featuring top scholars, this series of nearly two dozen videos explores the lives of African Americans in Missouri's past. The videos linked below feature the experiences of African American women in Missouri.
#SayHerName: Black Women and State Violence in the Case of Missouri v. Celia, A Slave
Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau professor at the University of Michigan, shares the deeply powerful and very tragic story of Celia, who was purchased by a local man in Callaway County and suffered tremendously for years before she eventually stood up for her basic human right to decide her own fate.
Keona K. Ervin, author of the award-winning Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis, discusses how Black women effectively grounded working-class struggle in movements for racial justice and set the stage for the defining campaigns of the explosive 1960s.
Margaret Bush Wilson and the Promise of America: A Pragmatic Civil Rights Vision
Priscilla Dowden-White explores the life and legacy of St. Louis attorney and NAACP leader Margaret Bush Wilson. In her lifelong struggle to advance freedom and equality for African Americans, women, and all those who were excluded from the mainstream of society, Wilson blazed a courageous trail marked by landmark legal decisions and major civil rights advances that opened doors to equal opportunity for all.
Our Missouri Podcast Episodes
Our Missouri is a podcast about the people, places, culture, and history of the 114 counties and independent city of St. Louis that comprise the great state of Missouri. Engaging with subject matter experts in each episode, host Sean Rost explores topics related to the state's complex history and culture, from publications about Missouri’s history to current projects undertaken by organizations to preserve and promote local institutions.
Summer Series 2020: "Show-Me Suffragists"
In 1920, Missourians awaited news regarding the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The state had approved the amendment, which prohibited the federal government and states from denying a citizen the right to vote based upon sex, a year prior, in 1919. However, it would take another year before Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the new constitutional amendment in August 1920. Our Missouri invites listeners to join us as we explore the fight for the vote through the eyes of a group of "Show-Me Suffragists" who are not as well-known in Missouri History.
Part 1: Alma Nash & the Maryville Milieu with Elyssa Ford
Elyssa Ford discusses Alma Nash and how Maryville's Missouri Ladies Military Band became key participants in the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession.
Part 2: The Clark Family with Ethan Colbert
Ethan Colbert discusses 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.
Part 3: Carrie Lee Carter Stokes with Janet Olson
Janet Olson joins us to talk about 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.
Part 4: Voda Curtis, Suffrage, & Civil Rights with Keely Doll
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.
More Our Missouri Episodes
Episode 2: "Prairie Fires" with Caroline Fraser
Once upon a time, sixty years ago (now nearly 150 years ago), a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. With that opening scene, Laura Ingalls Wilder launched the Little House book series that eventually became a key piece of American culture. But, did you know, that despite her stories of little houses on the prairies of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, and the Dakota Territory, Laura Ingalls Wilder actually spent a majority of her life in the tiny town of Mansfield, Missouri?
Missouri Moments: "Rose Wilder Lane" with Caroline Fraser
Recorded on location at the "People's House," this episode features Mrs. Teresa Parson, First Lady of the State of Missouri, and Dr. Gary R. Kremer, Executive Director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, discussing Mrs. Parson's life and family as well as her goals for addressing important issues related to the state's culture and history.
Episode 14: "Missouri's First Lady" with Teresa Parson
Recorded on location at the "People's House," this episode features Mrs. Teresa Parson, First Lady of the State of Missouri, and Dr. Gary R. Kremer, Executive Director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, discussing Mrs. Parson's life and family as well as her goals for addressing important issues related to the state's culture and history.
Summer Series 2019, Part 1: "Calculations"
This episode focuses on an astronomer—Edwin Hubble—and a mathematician—Dorothy Vaughan—who grew up in Missouri, but later achieved international acclaim in their respective fields.
Episode 20: "Kate Franklin Newton and the Memorial to Missouri's Great Heart"
This episode focuses on Carthage resident Kate Franklin Newton and her efforts as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) to commission a marble bust in honor of "Missouri's Great Heart," Clara C. Hoffman. Today, the Hoffman Bust resides in the art collection at the State Historical Society of Missouri's Center for Missouri Studies.
Episode 28: "Battle Lines & The Golden Lane" with Joan Stack
SHSMO Curator of Art collections Joan Stack discusses editorial cartoons from St. Louis-based artists Daniel Fitzpatrick, Bill Mauldin, and Tom Engelhardt, as well as the upcoming "Battle Lines" and "Missouri Women: Suffrage to Statecraft" exhibits in the Center for Missouri Studies Art Gallery.
Episode 34: "Commonwealth of Compromise" with Amy Laurel Fluker
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 43: "Gateway to Equality" with Keona Ervin
Keona Ervin discusses her award-winning book, Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis, which was published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2017.
Episode 48: "Celia, A Slave" with Melton McLaurin
A conversation with Melton McLaurin about the 30th anniversary of his book, Celia, A Slave.
Episode 49: "Prairie Fires" with Caroline Fraser
Caroline Fraser talks about her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Episode 51: "Bridging Two Eras" with Virginia Laas
Virginia Laas discusses her book, Bridging Two Eras: The Autobiography of Emily Newell Blair, 1877-1951, and highlights the unique challenges of editing the writings of the noted feminist, suffragist, and political leader.
Episode 59: "Gender & the Jubilee" with Sharon Romeo
Sharon Romeo discusses how freedwomen and enslaved women fought for their freedom and rights in Missouri during the Civil War.
Vertical Files
The vertical files contain magazine and newspaper clippings, handwritten information donated by patrons, bibliographies, programs, brochures, flyers, and other materials that, by reason of their physical formats, cannot be placed on the shelves with books. SHSMO's Columbia Research Center has numerous vertical files beginning with the subject heading “Women.” Several subjects, such as the Civil War, have “women” as a subtopic. There are also vertical files on numerous individual Missouri women. Ask a librarian or archivist for more assistance with these paper files.