Initiated in December 1958, the St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey was launched to test the effect of radioactive fallout and nuclear energy on children’s health.

The infamous Dred Scott case started in the St. Louis Circuit Court in 1846. Cicely Hunter, tells us how this case came to be and what resulted from it.

A look at how the 1906 Saint Louis University football team changed football as we know it.

Why the Hill neighborhood is responsible for the bricks that built St. Louis.

The impact of the Pruitt–Igoe cutting-edge housing project on residents and the Rent Strike that ensued in 1969.

Amanda Clark tells us about St. Louis’ lost cemeteries and how Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell became known as a body snatcher.

In 1916, St. Louis children pooled their pennies to buy the St. Louis Zoo its very first elephant.

A dress from one of the best dressed in mid-20th century STL.

Judge Nathan B. Young, a prominent judge in St. Louis, was named the first African American municipal judge for City Court #2 in St. Louis in 1965.

In 1944 the STL Browns overcame the infamous saying “first in shoes, first in booze, last in the American League” by winning the American League pennant.