LANDING AFTER HOURS: These Honored Dead; Jefferson City National Cemetery

JEFFERSON LANDING STATE HISTORIC SITE, 100 JEFFERSON 100 Jefferson St, JEFFERSON CITY, United States

Joining forces in their second book, Nancy Arnold Thompson and Michelle Brooks combine their talents of genealogy and storytelling to bring to life the individuals buried under the uniform white markers at the Jefferson City National Cemetery. In These Honored Dead, readers will learn about hundreds of men and women who served their country from …

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Landing After Hours: Soothing the “Savage Hearts of Man”

JEFFERSON LANDING STATE HISTORIC SITE, 100 JEFFERSON 100 Jefferson St, JEFFERSON CITY, United States

Rural areas were often ignored by national and eastern women's suffrage organizations, but women's suffrage groups in the Midwest learned by the late 19th century that these areas must also be targeted to win the hearts and minds of the electorate. In this program, historian Elyssa Ford will share how rural women in Missouri played an important …

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