When St. Louis hosted the most bizarre race in Olympic History.
In 1904, St. Louis hosted the Summer Olympics, to coincide with the upcoming World’s Fair located in the city’s Forest...
Devin Walk
Devin Walk is a freelance writer from Illinois with over a decade's worth of history-related writing. He is also the founder of Memories of the Prairie, a website dedicated to the history of the Midwestern United States.
Kansas’ Panic Over Women’s STDs
In 1917, the state of Kansas passed a law, Chapter 205, State of Kansas Quarantine. Over 5000 women suspected of...
Chicago’s most infamous ghost
Jerry Paulus’s Story In 1939, a Chicagoan named Jerry Paulus headed out to a dance hall called Liberty Grove and...
When earthquakes reversed the Mississippi River
In 1811, local residents near New Madrid, Missouri, began to notice a growing restlessness among their farm animals. Eyewitnesses reported...