Episode 28: Battle Lines & the Golden Lane – Joan Stack (Meet Me in St. Louis, Part 4)

To help prepare for this year's Missouri Conference on History, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode features SHSMO curator of art collections Joan Stack discussing editorial cartoons from St. Louis-based artists Daniel Fitzpatrick, Bill Mauldin, and Tom Engelhardt, as well as the upcoming "Battle Lines" and "Missouri Women: Suffrage to Statecraft" exhibits in the Center for Missouri Studies Art Gallery.

Episode Image: An editorial cartoon by Daniel Fitzpatrick entitled “A new era in man's understanding of nature's forces,” 1945 [Daniel Fitzpatrick Collection (F582), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Joan Stack holds a Ph.D. in art history from Washington University. Presently, she serves as the curator of art collections at the State Historical Society of Missouri.