Education and Research

Educator Resources and Lesson Plans

• Missouri State Archives Educational Resources
• Missouri Historical Society Educator Programs and Resources
• The State Historical Society of Missouri Educational Resources
• National Park Service Educational Resources
• Project Archaeology (Montana State University and the Bureau of Land Management)
• Discovering Lewis and Clark
• Teaching American History
• Africans in America (PBS)

Research Databases

• Missouri Historical Society Online Collections
• State Historical Society of Missouri Digital Collections
• Missouri Digital Heritage (Missouri State Archives)
• St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project (Missouri State Archives and Washington University)
• Missouriana Digital Text Collection (University of Missouri)
• Invisible History: Preserving the African American Past in Missouri (Department of Natural Resources)
• Missouri Judicial Records Historical Database (Missouri State Archives)
• Origins of Missouri Counties (Missouri State Archives)
• Plat Books of Missouri (c. 1920s-1930s; University of Missouri)
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Missouri (University of Missouri)
• Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722-1863) (Illinois State Archives)
• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index (1763-1900) (Illinois State Archives)
• African-American Life in St. Louis, 1804-1865 (includes links to lists of emancipations registered, free licenses issued, and sales of enslaved people ordered at St. Louis' Old Courthouse; compiled by the National Park Service Jefferson National Expansion Memorial)
• Documenting the American South (DocSouth) (University of North Carolina)
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• Making of America (University of Michigan)
• Making of America (word searchable books and articles from Cornell University)

Preservation Issues

Newsletter published by the Missouri State Historic Preservation Office with a grant from the National Park Service, 1991-1997.

• Preservation Issues, vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1991)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 1, no. 2 (March-April 1991) 
• Preservation Issues, vol. 1, no. 3 (May-June 1991)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 1, no. 4 (July-Aug. 1991)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 1, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1991)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 1, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1991)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 2, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1992)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 2, no. 2 (March-April 1992) 
• Preservation Issues, vol. 2, no. 3 (May-June 1992)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 2, no. 4 (July-Aug. 1992)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 2, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1992)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 2, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1992)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 3, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1993)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 3, no. 2 (March-April 1993)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 3, no. 3 (May-June 1993)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 3, no. 4 (July-Aug. 1993)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 3, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1993)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 3, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1993)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1994)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 4, no. 2 (March-April 1994) 
• Preservation Issues, vol. 4, no. 3 (May-June 1994)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 4, no. 4 (July-Aug. 1994)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 4, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1994)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 4, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1994)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 5, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1995)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 5, no. 2 (March-April 1995) 
• Preservation Issues, vol. 5, no. 3 (May-June 1995)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 5, no. 4 (July-Aug. 1995)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 5, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1995)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 5, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1995)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 6, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1996)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 6, no. 2 (March-April 1996) 
• Preservation Issues, vol. 6, no. 3 (May-June 1996)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 6, no. 4 (July-Aug. 1996)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 6, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1996)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 6, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1996)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 7, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1997)
• Preservation Issues, vol. 7, no. 2 (March-April 1997) 
• Preservation Issues, vol. 7, no. 3 (Sept.-Oct. 1997)

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