Sprint Creates Data from Historic St. Louis Maps The Data Service team at Washington University Libraries, in collaboration with the Missouri History Society Library and Research Center, recently...
Open to All: The Fight to Desegregate St. Louis Restaurants One of the documents preserved in the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Records at the Washington University Libraries is this simple...
Holobaugh in History What’s in a Name? At Washington University in St. Louis, a yearly ceremony honors “students, staff and faculty, and St....
Race, HIV/AIDS, and Health Care Access in 1980s St. Louis In conjunction with programs at The Griot Museum of Black History, Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis is taking a closer look...
Marching with Pride Pride and St. Louis, 1979 – 2019 Forty years ago, in April 1979, the first organized “Gay Pride” event took...
LGBTQ History and Black History Month The Zebra Lounge is one of 800+ locations connected to LGBTQ history that are documented online in Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis. In the 1980s...
LGBT History Month 2018 October is LGBT History Month — and a great opportunity to focus on how important events in October, and its predominant holiday...
LGBTQ St. Louis on the Map Happy 6 Month Anniversary to Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis! Online and freely available to everyone since October 2017, Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis allows...
Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis is Now Online Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis is a digital interactive map exploring how the region’s LGBTQIA+ communities have changed over time.
Letter to ONE, from St. Louis In 1958, a St. Louis resident who identified himself as “Mr. H” wrote to the editors of ONE, the first LGBTQ...
Where Was That? : Using Travel Guides to Reconstruct LGBTQ History A key challenge as we researched Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis was locating street addresses. Since many bars and restaurants were well...
Unusual Sources Recently the national podcast Criminal visited the WU library. This audio documentary program was researching The Evening Whirl — one of the...