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UMSL historian surveys St. Louis’ guiding spirit

In St. Louis’ nearly 250 years of existence, the Gateway City and the surrounding region has experienced many science and technology milestones. Those advances have shaped a port city into one of the United States’ most powerful manufacturing hubs and home to the “Biobelt.”

UMSL historian surveys St. Louis’ guiding spirit

In St. Louis’ nearly 250 years of existence, the Gateway City and the surrounding region has experienced many science and technology milestones. Those advances have shaped a port city into one of the United States’ most powerful manufacturing hubs and home to the “Biobelt.”

UMSL historian surveys St. Louis’ guiding spirit

In St. Louis’ nearly 250 years of existence, the Gateway City and the surrounding region has experienced many science and technology milestones. Those advances have shaped a port city into one of the United States’ most powerful manufacturing hubs and home to the “Biobelt.”

Big History: From Big Bang to BlackBerry

History classes often cover a lot of retrospective ground. But not like Kevin Fernlund’s undergraduate course in big history. The professor of history and education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis looks at history from the Big Bang to the BlackBerry. With...

Big History: From Big Bang to BlackBerry

History classes often cover a lot of retrospective ground. But not like Kevin Fernlund’s undergraduate course in big history. The professor of history and education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis looks at history from the Big Bang to the BlackBerry. With...

Big History: From Big Bang to BlackBerry

History classes often cover a lot of retrospective ground. But not like Kevin Fernlund’s undergraduate course in big history. The professor of history and education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis looks at history from the Big Bang to the BlackBerry. With...

Big History Lecture to focus on famous fossil Lucy

Donald Johanson and Tom Gray had just concluded a long, hot November morning of mapping and surveying for fossils near the village of Hadar, Ethiopia. En route back to their Land Rover, the paleontologists detoured through a gully where something caught Johanson’s...

Big History Lecture to focus on famous fossil Lucy

Donald Johanson and Tom Gray had just concluded a long, hot November morning of mapping and surveying for fossils near the village of Hadar, Ethiopia. En route back to their Land Rover, the paleontologists detoured through a gully where something caught Johanson’s...

Big History Lecture to focus on famous fossil Lucy

Donald Johanson and Tom Gray had just concluded a long, hot November morning of mapping and surveying for fossils near the village of Hadar, Ethiopia. En route back to their Land Rover, the paleontologists detoured through a gully where something caught Johanson’s...

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