The State Historical Society of Missouri, a private membership and state funded organization, is a comprehensive research facility located in Columbia, Missouri, specializing in the preservation and s
The Center for Missouri Studies in Columbia, Missouri is the headquarters of the society.
A view of the stacks in the Reference Library at the Society.
Ellis Library, former entrance to the State Historical Society of Missouri.
From across Elm Street
Walter Williams (journalist)
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Walter Williams was an American journalist and educator. He founded the world's first journalism school at the University of Missouri, and later served as the university's president. An internationali
State Historical Society of Missouri
…January 1898 meeting of the Missouri Press Association. Two of the chief supporters were Edwin W. Stephens, later first president of the Society, and Walter Williams, founder of the Missouri School of Journalism, and a third, Isidor Loeb, a member of the University of Missouri's history and political science faculty…
Walter Williams
Williams and his wife Sarah, 1935