Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis

Winner of the 2025 Midland Authors Award in the History category and the 2025 Missouri History Book Award

Nearly one thousand years ago, Native peoples built a satellite suburb of America's great metropolis on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around present—day Cahokia, Illinois. While the mounds around Cahokia survive today (as part of a state historic site and UNESCO world heritage site), the monumental earthworks that stood on the...