Sean Rost
@rostontheroad.bsky.social
Host - Our Missouri Podcast | Assistant Director, Research - SHSMO | Mizzou PhD | Views are my own | Living in the borderland between Missour-EE & Missour-UH
New book: https://upress.missouri.edu/9780826223289/catching-hell-from-all-quarters/
New book: https://upress.missouri.edu/9780826223289/catching-hell-from-all-quarters/
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Sean Rost
@rostontheroad.bsky.social
· Jun 13
Catching Hell from All Quarters
In Catching Hell from All Quarters Sean Rost works to invert the traditional history of what has been termed the second Ku Klux Klan (1915-1930) by examining...
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Today is publication day! Pick up your copy of Catching Hell from All Quarters from @umissouripress.bsky.social by visiting upress.missouri.edu/978082622328...
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CATCHING HELL FROM ALL QUARTERS: Anti-Klan Activists in Interwar Missouri by Sean Rost was recently included on Contingent Magazine's 2025 Contingent Book List. Find the full list here:
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December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
CATCHING HELL FROM ALL QUARTERS: Anti-Klan Activists in Interwar Missouri by Sean Rost was recently included on Contingent Magazine's 2025 Contingent Book List. Find the full list here:
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contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/02/2...
Check out this list of amazing books, including one by yours truly
Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!
2025 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Check out this list of amazing books, including one by yours truly
The latest installment of Missouri Mysteries is up on YouTube. Please check it out. What started as an homage to the beloved Unsolved Mysteries has taken on a life of its own.
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Missouri Mysteries Chapter 6: The Mysterious Aeronauts
YouTube video by State Historical Society of Missouri
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November 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The latest installment of Missouri Mysteries is up on YouTube. Please check it out. What started as an homage to the beloved Unsolved Mysteries has taken on a life of its own.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5tNY...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5tNY...
My book and many other great selections from the University of Missouri Press are 40% off through December 3rd. Use code HOLIDAYS2025
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November 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
My book and many other great selections from the University of Missouri Press are 40% off through December 3rd. Use code HOLIDAYS2025
upress.missouri.edu/978082622328...
upress.missouri.edu/978082622328...
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Call for Proposals: THE MODERN MIDWEST, 1989-2025
The Middle West Review is seeking proposals for articles and essays covering the post-Cold War Midwest.
Deadline is Dec. 17. Click here for more details: bit.ly/3M3elfK
The Middle West Review is seeking proposals for articles and essays covering the post-Cold War Midwest.
Deadline is Dec. 17. Click here for more details: bit.ly/3M3elfK
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Call for Proposals: THE MODERN MIDWEST, 1989-2025
The Middle West Review is seeking proposals for articles and essays covering the post-Cold War Midwest.
Deadline is Dec. 17. Click here for more details: bit.ly/3M3elfK
The Middle West Review is seeking proposals for articles and essays covering the post-Cold War Midwest.
Deadline is Dec. 17. Click here for more details: bit.ly/3M3elfK
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The destination is a can’t-miss for tiny train enthusiasts this season.
The holidays have arrived at the National Museum of Transportation
The destination, with its holiday trains displays, is a can’t-miss for tiny train enthusiasts this season.
www.stlmag.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The destination is a can’t-miss for tiny train enthusiasts this season.
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CfP extended for "THE MODERN MIDWEST, 1989-2025" series at the Middle West Review. Please see the link for more details.
Call-for-Proposals: THE MODERN MIDWEST, 1989-2025 | H-Net
Call-for-Proposals: THE MODERN MIDWEST, 1989-2025
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November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
CfP extended for "THE MODERN MIDWEST, 1989-2025" series at the Middle West Review. Please see the link for more details.
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Celebrate every Missouri Tigers victory with a special discount the following Tuesday—now through the end of football season! Today through Friday, November 21st, we're offering a 49% discount on all titles.
upress.missouri.edu
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University of Missouri Press - Scholarly, Trade, and Academic Books by, for, and about Missourians
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November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Celebrate every Missouri Tigers victory with a special discount the following Tuesday—now through the end of football season! Today through Friday, November 21st, we're offering a 49% discount on all titles.
upress.missouri.edu
upress.missouri.edu
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A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.
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Registration is OPEN! KHS will host Ohio Valley History Conference October 9-11, 2025. Conference is open to historians & graduate students from all time periods and specializations, including public historians and independent scholars. Visit history.ky.gov/events/ohio-... for more info & register.
August 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Registration is OPEN! KHS will host Ohio Valley History Conference October 9-11, 2025. Conference is open to historians & graduate students from all time periods and specializations, including public historians and independent scholars. Visit history.ky.gov/events/ohio-... for more info & register.
Today is publication day! Pick up your copy of Catching Hell from All Quarters from @umissouripress.bsky.social by visiting upress.missouri.edu/978082622328...
Catching Hell from All Quarters
In Catching Hell from All Quarters Sean Rost works to invert the traditional history of what has been termed the second Ku Klux Klan (1915-1930) by examining...
upress.missouri.edu
June 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Today is publication day! Pick up your copy of Catching Hell from All Quarters from @umissouripress.bsky.social by visiting upress.missouri.edu/978082622328...
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🚨Check out this CFP from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Center for Digital and Public Humanities and the Kansas City Public Library on articles examining myriad social justice movements in Kansas City from the post-World War II era to the end of the 20th century.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Deadline: June 15, 2025
June 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🚨Check out this CFP from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Center for Digital and Public Humanities and the Kansas City Public Library on articles examining myriad social justice movements in Kansas City from the post-World War II era to the end of the 20th century.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Deadline: June 15, 2025
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Former Missouri Gov. and U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, one of the most influential state Republicans of the modern era, died today. He was 86.
Former Gov. and U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, giant of the Missouri Republican Party, dies at 86
Bond had a major impact on Missouri Republicans, winning back the governorship and sowing the seeds for the GOP’s current dominance.
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May 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Former Missouri Gov. and U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, one of the most influential state Republicans of the modern era, died today. He was 86.
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Join an SHA summer writing group! Sign up by May 1! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Join an SHA summer writing group! Sign up by May 1! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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KHS's Executive Director Scott Alvey was recently a guest on Our Missouri, a podcast from The State Historical Society of Missouri. Host @rostontheroad.bsky.social talked with Scott about the many historical connections between our states.
Since today is #photofriday I thought it would also be great to highlight the latest #OurMissouri episode featuring Scott Alvey from @kyhistsoc.bsky.social
shsmo.org/our-missouri...
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Episode 112: The Bluegrass State - Scott Alvey (State History, Part 6) | The State Historical Society of Missouri
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April 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
KHS's Executive Director Scott Alvey was recently a guest on Our Missouri, a podcast from The State Historical Society of Missouri. Host @rostontheroad.bsky.social talked with Scott about the many historical connections between our states.
Since today is #photofriday I thought it would also be great to highlight the latest #OurMissouri episode featuring Scott Alvey from @kyhistsoc.bsky.social
shsmo.org/our-missouri...
shsmo.org/our-missouri...
Episode 112: The Bluegrass State - Scott Alvey (State History, Part 6) | The State Historical Society of Missouri
shsmo.org
April 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Since today is #photofriday I thought it would also be great to highlight the latest #OurMissouri episode featuring Scott Alvey from @kyhistsoc.bsky.social
shsmo.org/our-missouri...
shsmo.org/our-missouri...
In the latest #OurMissouri episode, William Furry from the Illinois State Historical Society joins us to discuss the Land of Lincoln
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shsmo.org/our-missouri...
Episode 111: The Land of Lincoln - William Furry (State History, Part 5) | The State Historical Society of Missouri
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March 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In the latest #OurMissouri episode, William Furry from the Illinois State Historical Society joins us to discuss the Land of Lincoln
shsmo.org/our-missouri...
shsmo.org/our-missouri...
Kansas City Royals players talk to young fans during Spring Training, Fort Myers, FL, 1978 [Raymond E. Corey Photograph Collection (K1311), SHSMO] #photofriday
March 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Kansas City Royals players talk to young fans during Spring Training, Fort Myers, FL, 1978 [Raymond E. Corey Photograph Collection (K1311), SHSMO] #photofriday
Hofflin Post Office on Route 66, Crawford County, Missouri, date unknown. [John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection (R1551), SHSMO] #photofriday
March 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Hofflin Post Office on Route 66, Crawford County, Missouri, date unknown. [John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection (R1551), SHSMO] #photofriday
Photographers on the roof of St. Louis’ Sportsman’s Park during the 1934 World Series. [Charles Trefts Photographs (P0034), SHSMO] #photofriday
March 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Photographers on the roof of St. Louis’ Sportsman’s Park during the 1934 World Series. [Charles Trefts Photographs (P0034), SHSMO] #photofriday
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The men's Frozen Four and a Professional Women's Hockey League regular season game will be among the main draws in the coming weeks.
Sports tourism expected to have a major impact on St. Louis this spring
The men's Frozen Four and a Professional Women's Hockey League regular season game will be among the main draws in the coming weeks.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The men's Frozen Four and a Professional Women's Hockey League regular season game will be among the main draws in the coming weeks.
Little Flat Creek Bridge, Monett, Missouri, date unknown. [Missouri Postcard Collection (P0032), SHSMO] #photofriday
February 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Little Flat Creek Bridge, Monett, Missouri, date unknown. [Missouri Postcard Collection (P0032), SHSMO] #photofriday
In the latest episode of #OurMissouri, Patrick G. Williams joined us to talk about history of the Natural State
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Episode 109: The Natural State - Patrick G. Williams (State History, Part 3) | The State Historical Society of Missouri
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February 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In the latest episode of #OurMissouri, Patrick G. Williams joined us to talk about history of the Natural State
shsmo.org/our-missouri...
shsmo.org/our-missouri...
Gasconade County Courthouse in Hermann, Missouri, date unknown. [Edward J. Kemper Collection (C4388), SHSMO] #photofriday
February 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Gasconade County Courthouse in Hermann, Missouri, date unknown. [Edward J. Kemper Collection (C4388), SHSMO] #photofriday