Lost Caves of St. Louis
Author : Hubert Rother
Publisher : Virginia Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781891442278
Author : Hubert Rother
Publisher : Virginia Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781891442278
Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1541646061
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
Author : S. Patrick Allie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781883982942
"Companion catalog to the Missouri History Museum exhibit WWI: St. Louis and the Great War. Featuring more than 250 photographs and archival documents from the collections of the Missouri Historical Society and Soldiers Memorial Military Museum--most of which have never been published--this book details how the war touched the city and how its citizens rose to the challenge"--
Author : Mark Tranel
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1883982618
"Reviews the history of various aspects of planning in St. Louis City and County and provides insight into planning successes and challenges"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Colin Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0812291506
Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.
Author : Valerie Battle Kienzle
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1681061848
Why are turtles incorporated into the wrought iron fence at The Old Court House? Can beaver be eaten during Lent? Why are pieces of metal track imbedded in some local streets? Who is Sweet Meat, and should he be avoided? These and other questions about St. Louis routinely perplex both natives and newcomers to the area. In this updated version of her 2016 book, author Valerie Battle Kienzle continues her quest to find answers to some of The Gateway City’s most puzzling questions, digging through countless archives and talking to local experts. Part cultural study of The River City and part history lesson, the book reveals the backstories of more local places, events, and beloved traditions. Want to know why St. Louisans are so obsessed with soccer or why the acclaimed Missouri Botanical Garden contains a Japanese garden? Look no further. Dig into this informative and entertaining update for answers to those and dozens of other questions.
Author : Amanda E. Doyle
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1681061228
The St. Louis bucket list has an official handbook! In this second edition of the best-selling guide, you’ll find one hundred purely local ways to connect to the city, from holding your breath during the high-wire act at Circus Flora to finding the story of our town’s earliest days among the headstones at local cemeteries. Check out Frank Lloyd Wright’s contribution to Kirkwood, bike the Riverfront Trail from the graffiti wall to the Chain of Rocks bridge, or catch the thrill of the “clang, clang, clan g” on The Loop’s new trolley. Authentic experiences from the iconic to the little-known await in this candid insider’s guide to St. Louis. Make planning even easier with seasonal and themed itinerary suggestions for many interests: you’ll be turning your “must dos” into “dones” in no time! Perfect for residents and out-of-towners alike, 100 Things to Do in St. Louis Before You Die is the original volume that launched a nationwide series...check out your other favorite cities after you’ve explored STL!
Author : Charles A. Lindbergh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2003-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743237055
Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic solo flight in 1927.
Author : Marianne Cecilia Gaposchkin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801445507
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin reconstructs and analyzes the process that led to King Louis IX of France's canonization in 1297 and the consolidation and spread of his cult.
Author : Benjamin Looker
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781883982515
From 1968 to 1972, St. Louis was home to the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a seminal arts collective that nurtured African American experimentalists involved with theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, and jazz. Inspired by the reinvigorated black cultural nationalism of the 1960s, artistic collectives had sprung up around the country in a diffuse outgrowth known as the Black Arts Movement. These impulses resonated with BAG's founders, who sought to raise black consciousness and explore the far reaches of interdisciplinary performance--all while struggling to carve out a place within the context of St. Louis history and culture.A generation of innovative artists--Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, and Emilio Cruz, to name but a few--created a moment of intense and vibrant cultural life in an abandoned industrial building on Washington Avenue, surrounded by the evisceration that typified that decade's "urban crisis." The 1960s upsurge in political art blurred the lines between political involvement and artistic production, and debates over civil rights, black nationalism, and the role of the arts in political and cultural struggles all found form in BAG. This book narrates the group's development against the backdrop of St. Louis spaces and institutions, examines the work of its major artists, and follows its musicians to Paris and on to New York, where they played a dominant role in Lower Manhattan's 1970s "loft jazz" scene. By fusing social concern and artistic innovation, the group significantly reshaped the St. Louis and, by extension, the American arts landscape.