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Famous Missourians. Giving New Meaning to “Show Me”. Thomas Hart Benton (1889 – 1975). Links: http://mostateparks.com/park/thomas-hart-benton-home-and-studio-state-historic-site http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/benton/ http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/benton.htm. Artist Extraordinaire.
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Famous Missourians Giving New Meaning to “Show Me”
Thomas Hart Benton (1889 – 1975) Links: http://mostateparks.com/park/thomas-hart-benton-home-and-studio-state-historic-site http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/benton/ http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/benton.htm
Artist Extraordinaire Missouri Farmyard, 1936 Self Portrait, 1972, by Thomas Hart Benton Embarkation, c. 1942
Susan Blow (1843 – 1916) Links: http://statehistoricalsocietyofmissouri.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/mhr&CISOPTR=34014&CISOSHOW=33904 http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissourians/educators/blow/blowsusanobit1.html http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1164
Outstanding Educator Kindergarten classroom in St. Louis, 1899 State Capital Mural
DANIEL BOONE (1734-1820) Links: http://www.danielboonehomestead.org/history.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/daniel_boone.html http://www.boonesociety.org/historical_links/historical_sites.htm
Settler/Explorer Letter written by Daniel Boone
James Bradley Links: http://jamesbradley.com/ http://asiasociety.org/events-calendar/discussion-james-bradley-author-imperial-cruise http://www.chadwellcommunications.com/pdfs/flags.pdf
Omar Nelson Bradley (1893 – 1981) Links: http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/Bradley/Bradley.htm http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissourians/military/bradley/bradleybiblio.html http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/omarnels.htm
Serving Our Country Allies landing in France on D-Day World War II Military Map
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) Links: http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Carnegie_Dale.html http://www.dalecarnegie.com/about_us/history.jsp http://www.biography.com/articles/Dale-Carnegie-9238769
George Washington Carver (1865? – 1943) Links: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/gwc/home.html http://www.nps.gov/gwca/index.htm http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/gwcoverview.htm
1870 Newton County Census The Carver Boyhood Diorama
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910)[ Mark Twain ] Links: http://mostateparks.com/park/mark-twain-birthplace-state-historic-site http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/ http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/
Virtual Scrapbook PBS.org Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) Links: http://disney.go.com/disneyfans/history http://www.waltdisneymuseum.org/ http://www.biography.com/articles/Walt-Disney-9275533
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Spaceship Earth
James Cash Penney (1875 – 1971) Links: http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissourians/entrepreneurs/penney/ http://kemmerer.org/jcpenney http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/walker/WAfacts2.htm
John J. Pershing (1860 – 1948) Links: http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissourians/military/pershing/ http://www.pershingmuseum.com/ http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/johnjose.htm
Pershing’s West Point Class 10th Calvary on Patrol
Joseph Pulitzer (1847 – 1911) Links: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079242/index.html http://www.pulitzer.org/biography http://www.onlineconcepts.com/pulitzer/
Yellow Journalism St. Louis Dispatch
Harriet Robinson Scott (1815? – 1876?) Links: http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/dred_scott.html http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Case.17.aspx http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html
1860 Census St. Louis Courthouse
Harry S. Truman (1884 – 1972) Links: http://trumanlibrary.org/ http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000387 http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/exhibits/TrumanProject/
Berlin Blockade Desegregating the armed forces
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-[1957) Links: http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/index.html http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/topics/wilder/ http://www.hoover.nara.gov/LIW/