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Neosho Arts Council is debuting their new Murals of Neosho Guide and Descriptive Audio Tour. Everyone can now visit the town’s murals in person or online while watching and listening […]
This video Installation by Valerie Wedel, an art professor at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri, features enlarged, hand-painted copies of letters that are held in the archives of the […]
Hours: Monday - Friday 10AM-4PM ; Saturday 10AM-2PM About the Exhibit: Missouri Humanities, in conjunction with the Smithsonian, are proud to present Crossroads: Change in Rural America. In 1900, about […]
Voices of American HERstory enlightens audiences through performances, interactive discussion, and inspiring stories about women. Rebecca Now, Tia Adkins, and Jenny Grace Morris deliver the most famous speeches by Elizabeth […]
Known as the Female ‘Computers’ of WWII, this PBS* film shares a largely untold story of the women and technology that helped win a war and usher in the modern […]
Sedalian George Whiteman is considered the first American pilot killed in WWII on Dec. 7, 1941. His story of bravery, patriotism and sacrifice are told by his aunt Mildred Whiteman […]
Known as the Female ‘Computers’ of WWII, this PBS* film shares a largely untold story of the women and technology that helped win a war and usher in the modern […]
Looking at the food and foodways that defined Harry Truman throughout his life, which includes those MIssouri products that helped fill his plate from the battlefields of France to the […]
In the early 1900s rural farmers in southern Alabama had a hard time keeping up until the agricultural school on wheels came to town! Designed by George Washington Carver, it […]
The documentary “Far East Deep South” will be shown and discussed by producer Baldwin Chiu. The film tells his own family’s search for their roots in the Mississippi Delta, during […]
In the early 1900s rural farmers in southern Alabama had a hard time keeping up until the agricultural school on wheels came to town! Designed by George Washington Carver, it […]
Join the Cass County Historical Society in welcoming Dr. Madeline Rislow from Kansas City’s own National Museum of Toys and Miniatures. In 1982, Mary Harris Francis (1927-2005) and Barbara Hall […]
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