"That's pretty sneaky, what Clark did with the 1816 map," Foster said in an interview Thursday. "I mean, that's pretty sly." Jeremy Neely, a Missouri State University history professor in ...

In 1816, Clark, then the governor of Missouri Territory, sent the map to Washington, D.C., accompanied by a letter that proposed extending the territory’s southern boundary into lands held by ...

Clark's 1816 map played a role in shaping the political geography of the state of Missouri, Lee said. The influx of settlers promoted slavery and aided in creating the conditions that later ...

Lee contends the map was actually drawn by Clark himself during his time as governor of Missouri Territory, which Lee describes in a new study published Friday in the journal William and Mary ...

A state Senate district map drawn by a judicial commission meets state and federal constitutional requirements and will not be changed, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a 5-2 decision ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Missouri Supreme Court building. JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a court-drawn map of ...

On this date in 1821, Missouri entered the Union as the 24th state. It was the first one located entirely west of the Mississippi River. By 1818, the Missouri Territory, part of the Louisiana ...