St. Louis Archives - The American Scholar

Kodachrome Eden

By James Santel | 03/01/2013 |

With purple prose and oversaturated images, National Geographic reimagined postwar America as a dreamspace of hope and fascination

Civil Warfare in the Streets

By Adam Goodheart | 03/02/2011

After Fort Sumter, German immigrants in St. Louis flocked to the Union cause and in bloody confrontations overthrew the local secessionists