About the Author

Robert F. Brown is a native of Kansas City and grew up in St. Charles County. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history and communications from Southeast Missouri State University. He has worked in journalism since 1979, including at newspapers in Piedmont, Caruthersville, Jefferson City, and Centralia. He also has worked in public relations for the State of Missouri and the Episcopal Church in Missouri. Currently he is substitute teaching while working on earning his teacher certification. He resides in St. Charles with his family. Missouri history is one of Brown’s hobbies, and he previously collaborated on Horizons of Missouri, a predecessor to this textbook.

Contributing Authors

Joseph Coco is a graduate of Missouri University - St. Louis. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in social studies and language arts. After graduating, he worked for a major St. Louis County school district for thirty years. He was a social studies and language arts teacher for the district. He served a number of years as department chairperson for both the social studies and the English departments. Besides teaching and chairing two departments, he also coordinated the district’s dropout prevention program called Essential Academic Skills Education (Project E.A.S.E.) for five years. He is currently employed by a private school in St. Louis County.

Jill Likens received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with a minor in social studies from Lindenwood University in St. Charles. She has some thirty years of educational experience, including thirteen years teaching middle school American history and geography. For over ten years, she has taught fourth grade at St. Cletus School in St. Charles. She has also served on the St. Louis Archdiocese Social Studies Textbook Review Committee as well as school textbook review committees.

Paula Rardin taught middle school social studies classes at a St. Louis County public school for twenty-nine years and then was a Curriculum Coordinator for seven years before retiring. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a master’s degree in education at Lindenwood University. She is currently supervising and leading seminars for student teachers at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as well as teaching education courses at St. Charles Community College.

Reviewers
Elisabeth Brands is currently a classroom teacher at McNair Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District. She has more than ten years experience in the classroom.

Carolyn Chrisman teaches U.S. History at the Kirksville Middle School and is an adjunct teacher at Moberly Area Community College.

David Lindley is now retired, but has thirty-four years experience teaching social studies in the public schools, twelve on the Navajo Indian Reservation in northern Arizona, and twenty-two years in suburban St. Louis.

Vera Raglin has thirty-six years experience in the St. Louis County Schools. She currently works in schools across the country as a consultant in reading and writing instruction.

Margaret Sullivan is the librarian at Rockwood Summit High School in Fenton. Prior to becoming a librarian, she taught social studies for eight years.

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