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African American History

Art and Empowerment Mural Virtual Tour

BlackPast: St. Louis

Campbell House Museum: Video on enslaved and emancipated Eliza Rone

Enslavement and Its Wake: A Walking Tour of Washington University

Explore St. Louis: Black History and Culture in St. Louis

Father Dickson Cemetery

Missouri Historical Society: Annie Malone: A Legacy of Generosity

Missouri Historical Society: Black Missourians and the Fight for Freedom: From Slavery to Juneteenth to the Exodusters Resource Guide

Missouri Historical Society: John Berry Meachum and the Steamboat School That Defied the Law

Missouri Historical Society: Mill Creek Valley: Race and Urban Renewal Projects in the Mid-20th Century

Missouri Historical Society: STL History Minute | Downtown Sit-Ins

Missouri Historical Society: The Brave Women behind St. Louis Freedom Suits

Missouri Historical Society: STL History Minute | Mill Creek Valley

NPR: “Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country”

PBS: The History of Enslaved People at Saint Louis University

Raymond Dennis: Connecting St. Louis Black Fashion to the Met Gala

Reparative Justice Coalition of St. Louis

Slavery at White Haven

State Historical Society of Missouri: Historic Images of Black Families: Representation, Identity, and Diversity- A Virtual Tour

St. Louis County Library: Little Rock Nine

St. Louis County Library: Presentation on New Philadelphia National Historic Site

St. Louis County Library: Presentation on Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument

St. Louis Public Library: Julia Davis African American Collection

St. Louis Public Radio: Florissant’s History Of Slavery Gets A Close Look In ‘In The Walnut Grove’

St. Louis Public Radio: ‘Lynch’s Slave Pens’ In Shadow Of Busch Stadium Will Get Historical Marker

STL Today: A push to mark the buried history of ‘harrowing’ slave prisons near Busch Stadium

STL Today: Plaque marks infamous slave market in downtown St. Louis

Missouri Historical Society: Marking, Not Erasing, History

The NACWC: A Legacy of Impact

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site: Series: The History of Slavery in St. Louis

Truth and Reckonings: The Art of Transformative Racial Justice

UMSL: Mill Creek Valley Project

Washington University & Slavery Project

’40 acres and a mule’—without the mule: A Missouri family’s land stuck in limbo in 2026

Asian American History

Washington University: Asia in St. Louis

Chinese American Collecting Initiative

Notable Chinese Alumni of Missouri Institutions, Pt. 1

Notable Chinese Alumni of Missouri Institutions, Pt. 2

Notable Chinese Alumni of Missouri Institutions, Pt. 3

St. Louis Had a Chinatown?

Hop Alley and Beyond: Untold Stories

Native American History

Missouri Historical Society: Making Missouri: More than 200 (Missouri’s Indigenous History)

Missouri Historical Society: National Native American Heritage Month and the Work of Repatriation

Ancient Indigenous Mound in St. Louis Transferred to Osage Nation

State Historical Society of Missouri: Points, Pots, Pipes, and Powwows: Missouri’s Indigenous Peoples

Washington University in St. Louis: Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies

Osage Nation Reacquires Sugarloaf Mound, a Sacred Osage Site and Oldest Human-Made Structure in St. Louis

LGBTQIA+ History

Saint Louis LGBT History Project

State Historical Society of Missouri: Out of the Stacks: Utilizing SHSMO’s LGBTQIA+ Collections

General Hard History Education

Gateway Arch National Park: Americans’ Right to Vote Video Series

Gateway Arch National Park: Virtual Park Ranger Visits

International Coalition of Sites of Conscience: Addressing the Silences Toolkit

Missouri Historical Society: K-12 Programs

Missouri Humanities Podcast

MOCHE: Books, Documentaries, & Articles in Hard History Education

MOCHE: Curriculum Resources for Hard History Education

MOCHE: Organizations and Partners in Hard History Education

National Association for Interpretation: Confluences, Not Binaries

Teaching Hard History Podcast

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site: Challenging History Education Series

Ulysses S. Grant’s Life and Legacy: Teaching with Museum Collections Lesson Plan

Challenging History Webinar Series Videos

Bombs, Baby Teeth and the Cold War

St. Louis and the New Madrid Earthquakes

The Civil War in St. Louis and the Camp Jackson Affair

The Great Fire of 1849 in St. Louis

Miscellaneous

Center for Bosnian Studies

Informal History St. Louis

Missouri Historical Society: Making Missouri

Missouri Historical Society: Recorded Lectures and Lessons

National Park Service: Lesson Plans by Theme

National Park Service: Teaching with Historic Places

State Historical Society of Missouri: Research Guides

Washington University in St. Louis: Collaborative Projects

We Live Here Podcast

If you know of a relevant challenging history resource that’s not on this list, you are welcome to contact us.