April 4, 2026

A Deaf Journalist in the Civil War: Missouri School for the Deaf, Callaway County, Missouri

A Deaf Journalist in the Civil War: Missouri School for the Deaf, Callaway County, Missouri
A Deaf Journalist in the Civil War: Missouri School for the Deaf, Callaway County, Missouri
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Missouri History Podcast
A Deaf Journalist in the Civil War: Missouri School for the Deaf, Callaway County, Missouri

Travel to the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton, Missouri, to learn about the deaf poet and journalist Laura Redden Searing, as researched and told by graduates of the MSD. Learn of Searing's path to the MSD and her career as a writer and Civil War correspondent. Publishing under the pen name Howard Glyndon, she reported from Washington, D.C., wrote poetry about the war, and built a national reputation as a literary voice during one of the country’s most turbulent periods.