Andrew Wanko is a public historian with the Missouri Historical Society, where he has served as the content lead on exhibits including A Walk in 1875 St. Louis, St. Louis Sound, and Coloring STL. He authored the book Great River City: How the Mississippi Shaped St. Louis, which won a 2019 Independent Publishers Book Award gold medal, and directed the feature-length documentary Show Me 66: Main Street Through Missouri, which won the 2016 Midwest Regional Emmy for Best Historic Documentary Film. He is a three-time winner of the Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History.