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Missouri has had a curious history, with many iterations and incarnations powered by changes in its political, cultural and religious climate. Show Me The State explores Missouri’s strange and misunderstood past as it relates to the present.
A Missouri horse trader kept elephants; your next history rabbit hole has unusually large footprints.
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A Missouri bird call opens into Papa French, family memory, and the old mines community.
A bird call opens a small door into French dialect in southeast Missouri, as Kent Bone recalls his grandmother calling whippoorwills "roi puri," or "rotten wood." From that remembered phrase, the episode moves into the old mines community and the ways Papa French stayed alive…
Missouri's wine legacy comes through as a quiet scientific rescue story tied to Phylloxera and European vineyards.
Missouri's wine legacy lands here as an unlikely rescue story, with Show Me The State tracing how Phylloxera traveled from America to Europe and damaged French vineyards. The episode then turns to C.V.
A cold walk with pamphlets becomes a Supreme Court fight over speech at the University of Missouri.
A cold walk past the University of Missouri's Memorial Union opens a focused account of how far a campus can reach when it polices speech. Show Me The State follows Walter Bargan's arrest after he agrees to watch copies of an underground newspaper, then turns to Barbara Papish's…
A Missouri horse dealer turns animals into a circus empire, then meets the hard logistics of taking it on the road.
William Preston Hall's story starts with horses leaving Lancaster, Missouri, then widens into a portrait of ambition with a strangely vivid menagerie in tow.
A Fulton runner's Berlin race becomes a story of nerve, shin splints, and the burden of being remembered.
Helen Stevens enters Fulton High School in 1931 as an almost six-foot farm girl with a gravelly voice and a nickname she can laugh at, though never fully outrun.
Black Hills history, told on location.
Vegas history with a barstool pulse.
Connecticut history with national echoes.
Texas history, sourced and road-tested.
Maine history, widened through public talks.
Show Me the State follows Papa French in Old Mines, Missouri, where Kent Bone remembers "roi puri" and Will Thompson places the dialect in the eighteenth century.
Show Me the State asks whether Missouri or Texas saved the wine industry after phylloxera ravaged French vineyards in the 1860s.
Barbara Papish was expelled for distributing a paper, and the Supreme Court later said the University of Missouri violated her First Amendment rights.
["Show Me the State: Diamond Billy follows William Preston Hall, the Lancaster, Missouri trader who became the self-styled \"horse king of the world.\"", "Christopher Husted uses Sandra Redding, Bob Klein, Janet Davis, and Lauren Kramer to trace Hall from a first 25-horse shipment to Philadelphia to sales in Hamburg, London, and Cape Town.", "The episode links Hall's horse trade to the Second Boer War, the St.
Show Me the State follows Helen Stevens, the Fulton, Missouri runner nicknamed 'Popeye,' from a dirt-poor farm childhood to two Olympic gold medals.
This episode explores the history and hidden secrets of the Missouri River, including treasure hunting for buried steamboats.
This episode recounts the urban legend of Doc Ante's abandoned abortion clinic in Missouri, as remembered by locals who explored it as teenagers.