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“Living On The Color Line: 2800 Cass In A Period And Place Of Transition”, Lucas Delort
“Living On The Color Line: 2800 Cass In A Period And Place Of Transition”, Lucas Delort
The Confluence (2009-2020)
This co-winner of the Tatom Award explores the reasons why Delmar Avenue rather than Cass Avenue became the “Mason-Dixon Line” of St. Louis in the twentieth century.
“Anatomy, Grave-Robbing, And Spiritualism In Antebellum St. Louis”, Luke Ritter
“Anatomy, Grave-Robbing, And Spiritualism In Antebellum St. Louis”, Luke Ritter
The Confluence (2009-2020)
Dr. Joseph Nash Smith’s Missouri Medical College was a leading school for physicians and part of the professionalization of medicine before the Civil War. He also required human dissection that, along with being a St. Louis character, made him one of the period’s most controversial figures as well.