Missouri’s bicentennial year brought many organizations together to create new and expand digital resources for learning about the state’s history.
A press release says students, teachers, researchers and the public at-large can find learning aids in many different subjects, including a new registry of past Missouri Artists, a digital exhibit that explores Missouri’s Struggle for Statehood and curriculum that teaches the history of Missouri courts.
History timelines, a Missouri Constitution quiz and online history exhibits are among the free resources available to help people understand Missouri and its past of more than 200 years.
The Missouri Timeline, developed by staff of the State Historical Society of Missouri, begins with ancestral Missouri from 1250 to present day and offers photos, artworks, maps, manuscripts, documents and other images from the society’s vast collections with narrative text accompanying each entry year.
Missouri Encyclopedia and Historic Missourians are a growing digital resource that expanded this year to commemorate the bicentennial.
A new online resource Making Missouri created by the Missouri Historical Society offers primary sources, video content and custom plans for grades K-12. Another curriculum developed for elementary schools Four Years to Statehood comes from Missouri Council for History Education and covers the years between Missouri’s first petition to become a state and its final admission to the Union.
Additional Missouri history educational resources from Missouri Humanities Council, Missouri Secretary of State, The Supreme Court of Missouri, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Missouri Legislative Library and more can be found on the Educational Resource page on missouri2021.org.
Missouri Artists <https://missouriartists.org/>
Missouri’s Struggle for Statehood <https://mohumanities.wixsite.com/struggleforstatehood>
history of Missouri courts <https://www.courts.mo.gov/bicentennial/>
Missouri Timeline <https://shsmo.org/missouri-timeline>
Missouri Encyclopedia <https://missouriencyclopedia.org/?mc_cid=1fbadda5ce&mc_eid=b061aa8d46>
Historic Missourians <https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/>
Making Missouri <http://mm.mhs.yourcultureconnect.com/?mc_cid=1fbadda5ce&mc_eid=b061aa8d46>
Four Years to Statehood <https://www.mohistoryeducation.org/missouri-bicentennial-resources?mc_cid=1fbadda5ce&mc_eid=b061aa8d46>
Missouri Humanities Council <https://mohumanities.org/programs/bicentennial/>
Missouri Secretary of State <https://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/>
The Supreme Court of Missouri <https://missouri2021.org/missouri-constitution-quiz/>
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education <https://dese.mo.gov/missouri-heritage/finding-missouri-our-history-heritage>
Missouri Legislative Library <https://www.senate.mo.gov/LegislativeLibrary/Capitols.html>
Educational Resource page on missouri2021.org <https://missouri2021.org/educational-resources/>