Our Missouri

Discussions on the people, places, and events that have helped to shape the Show-Me State.

Our Missouri is a society podcast hosted by OurMissouri, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

OurMissouri hosts Our Missouri, a society show with 100 episodes published.

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  Episode #126

  Episode 134: Germans in America - Walter Kamphoefner (Origins, Part 14)

  Sep 28, 202618 min

  Just in time for Oktoberfest, Walter Kamphoefner joins host Sean Rost to discuss German history, culture, and life in Missouri, particularly his upbringing in the state's German Heritage Corridor and his book, Germans in America: A Concise History . Episode Image: German Singing Society, St. Louis, 1936 [Arthur Witman Photograph Collection (S0733), SHSMO] About the Guest: Walter Kamphoefner holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Missouri. He is a Professor in History at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri and Germans in America: A Concise History . He is also the co-editor of News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home, Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home; Longer than a Man's Lifetime in Missouri ; and Preserving German Texan Identity: Reminiscences of William A. Trenckmann, 1859-1935.

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  Episode #115

  Episode 133: Creating a Federal Government - Peter Kastor (Origins, Part 13)

  Sep 14, 202628 min

  Next in the "Origins" series, Peter Kastor talks with Sean Rost about the interactive website, Creating a Federal Government, 1789-1829 . Episode Image: Portrait of William Clark by Charles Wilson Peale [Normandy Area Historical Association Records (S0420), SHSMO] About the Guest: Peter Kastor holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. Presently, he is Samuel K. Eddy Endowed Professor, Associate Vice Dean of Research, Professor of History and American Culture Studies, and Professor of Law at Washington University. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Louisiana Purchase: Emergence of an American Nation; The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America; Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase; America's Struggle with Empire: A Documentary History; William Clark's World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns; What So Proudly We Hailed: Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812; A French City in Colonial North America; Washington’s Government: Statebuilding for a New Nation. He is currently the project lead for the interactive website, Creating a Federal Government, 1789-1829.

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  Episode #114

  Episode 132: The Clamorgans - Julie Winch (Origins, Part 12)

  Aug 3, 202654 min

  In this episode of the "Origins" series, Julie Winch talks to Sean Rost about the history and legacy of the Clamorgan family of St. Louis. Episode Image: Laclede's Landing and Clamorgan Alley in St. Louis, date unknown [George McCue Photograph Collection (S0718), SHSMO] About the Guest: Julie Winch is Emerita Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of several books, including Philadelphia's Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787-1848; Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color in America from Settlement to the Civil War; A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten (which won the American Historical Association's Wesley-Logan Prize), and The Clamorgans: One Family's History of Race in America. She is also the editor of The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis.

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  Episode #125

  Episode 131: Stars, Stripes, & Celebrations - Lily Santoro (Origins, Part 11)

  Jul 20, 202619 min

  In this episode of the "Origins" series, Lily Santoro joins host Sean Rost to discuss the new exhibit, "Stars, Stripes, & Celebrations: Missourians Commemorating America’s Founding in Uncertain Times," curated by her and ASH Scholars from the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, which will be on display at the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City from June 2026-May 2027. Episode Image: Liberty Bell at the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904 [Charles Trefts Photographs (P0034), SHSMO] About the Guest: Lily Santoro earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in American History from the University of Delaware and completed her B.A. in History at the University of Southern California. She holds certificates in Museum Studies from the University of Delaware and Digital Archives and Records Management from San Jose State University. Presently, she serves as an Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.

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  Episode #113

  Episode 128: The Centrality of Slavery - John Craig Hammonds (Origins, Part 8)

  May 4, 202649 minS0

  <p>In this episode of the "Origins" series, John Craig Hammond joins host Sean Rost to discuss his new book, The Centrality of Slavery:<br> Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri.</p> <p>Episode Image: Map of Illinois and Missouri, 1827 [The State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection]</p> <p>About the Guest: John Craig Hammond is Associate Professor of History at Penn State University, New Kensington. He is the author of The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri and the co-editor of A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200...

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