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 Prophet Noble Drew Ali A program that discusses the history of the Moorish Science Temple movement will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 25, 2013 at Lee Auditorium of the Missouri History Museum.
Scholars and temple members will be at the program.
Prophet Noble Drew Ali founded the first temple in 1913 in Newark, N.J. He promoted black racial pride and said “we will have to build our own government, industry, and cultural, before the world will stop to consider us.” On its website the Moorish Science Temple organization says “the object of our organization is to help in the great program of uplifting fallen humanity and teach those things necessary to make our members better citizens.”
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
 The Missouri History Museum will show “Deadlines in Disaster,” a 59-minute documentary about the Joplin Globe’s response to the huge tornado that ripped through the city on May 22, 2011, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The event will be in the Lee Auditorium.
A panel discussion will follow the movie. Appearing on the panel will be:
• Emily Younker, a reporter with the Joplin Globe.
• Scott Charton, former Jefferson City bureau chief of the Associated Press and co-producer of the documentary.
• Doug Crews, executive director of the Missouri Press Association which produced the documentary.
• Stephen Hudness, director, editor and videographer.
• Beth Pike, director and editor.
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
 View of St. Louis from the northeast in 1840 “How We Got Here,”a two-part series about the early history of St. Louis, concludes at 10:15 a.m. Monday, May 20, 2013, at the Missouri History Museum. The series will be in the AT&T Foundation Multipurpose Room.
Monday’ session will look at French explorers and the city’s early history.
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
Christopher Morris, author of The Big Muddy, will discuss his book and current issues that the Mississippi River faces. He will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in the Lee Auditorium of the Missouri History Museum.
The book presents a five-century tour of the interaction of people and the environment along the river.
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
 The Missouri History Museum will present a program on the technological leaps that both the North and the South produced in the Civil War. The event will be at noon Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in the AT&T Multipurpose Room.
The war brought such advances as the machine gun and instantaneous communication, the museum notes.
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
View of St. Louis from the northeast in 1840 “How We Got Here,”a two-part series about the early history of St. Louis, will begin at 10:15 a.m. Monday, May 13, 2013, at the Missouri History Museum. The series will be in the AT&T Foundation Multipurpose Room.
Monday’ session discusses the region before Europeans arrive. The second part at the same time on Monday, May 20, will look at French explorers and the city’s early history.
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
 Genghis Khan William Fitzhugh, director of the Arctic Studies Center and a curator of archaeology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, will discuss Genghis Khan and the Mongol empire. The event will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at the Missouri History Museum. He will speak in the Lee Auditorium.
The Archaelogical Institute of America co-sponsors the event.
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
 A St. Louis streetcar on display at the Missouri History Museum A presentation will highlight the history of streetcars in St. Louis at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the Missouri History Museum. The last streetcar ran in St. Louis in 1966.
The event will be at the streetcar on the north side of the museum building facing Lindell Boulevard, weather permitting.
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
 Hopewell artifact Margaret Roach Wheeler, an award-winning weaver, fiber expert and textile artist, will discuss the works of the Adena-Hopewell Native American culture.
Her talk will be at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday April 23, 2013, in the Lee Auditorium of the Missouri History Museum.
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociology instructor at St. Louis Community College, will discuss the U.S. Army’s aerosol tests in predominantly minority areas of St. Louis between 1953 and 1965 at a lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2013, in Lee Auditorium of the Missouri History Museum.
Martino-Taylor will put the tests, which were done without the people’s consent, in the context of the Cold War at that time.
The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
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