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  • Q&A with Jon Langmead January 18, 2024
    Jon Langmead is a writer covering music and popular culture for a variety of outlets. The University of Missouri Press has just released his book, Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling. The book offers a colorful, entertaining history of professional wrestling’s formative years in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to…
  • In honor of Olivia Langdon Clemens’ birthday November 27, 2023
    While Olivia Langdon Clemens is popularly known as the wife of Mark Twain, she deserves to be remembered on her own terms. Her many letters are perhaps the best way for us to understand her as a world-class thinker in her own right. Thus, in honor of her birthday, we’ve decided to share the preface…
  • Pawnee Two Step June 21, 2023
    Greg Olson reappears on the publishing scene with his new book, Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present. This week’s author blog features a fascinating excerpt of the book from the preface. Greg Olson served as the Curator of Exhibits and Special Projects at the Missouri State Archives from 2000–2018 and is the author of…