MoHistory

If you’ve been to a beer garden around St. Louis today, it’s hard to imagine the scene of shady tables and chatting friends provoking a violent outburst. While they aren’t so hotly debated today, a battle over beer gardens was raging in the mid-1800s. As thousands of German immigrants came to St. Louis, they brought their old world cultures …

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People have always been people—that’s one of my favorite facts about history. It’s also a very easy fact to forget. We talk about “great men” of history and the things they did and the decisions they made that still impact us today. We often don’t think about the rest of their lives—their families, their friends, or the smaller decisions they made. …

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