Communications

Unit 6: A State is Born

Law comes to the frontier at the first State Capital in St. Charles.

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Unit 11: Divided & Torn

The Civil War rages at Wilson's Creek

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Unit 10: What Do We Stand For?

Slavery, Dred Scott & the Old Courthouse

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Unit 9: Portrait of a River Town

Explore Missouri Society with Mark Twain in Hannibal

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Unit 8: Coming Through

Explore the lives of three men as Missourians explore trails west in Arrow Rock

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Unit 7: Coming to Missouri

A celebration of our immigrant past hosted in Hermann

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Unit 4: A Meeting of Cultures

Native American & European Cultures

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Unit 3: The Ancient Ones

Missouri's Oldest Cultures

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DESE Submits American Rescue Plan Elementary & Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) State Plan

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) today submitted to the United States Department of Education (USED) the application required to receive Missouri’s allocation for the ARP ESSER fund, often referred to by DESE as ESSER III. Missouri’s allocation totals $1.96 billion, 90 percent of which will be distributed directly to local education agencies (LEAs) to spend on a wide range of allowable uses to respond to COVID-19.