Dr Shawn Faulkner’s recent visit to Truman as the 2016 Kohlenberg-Towne Lecturer was great success. Students got a hands-on feel for what it was like to be a soldier in the trenches and the evening lecture was standing room only.
Women’s History Month Speaker
Truman alumna Karianne Jones JD, will present
Finding Women: An Examination of the Women’s Rights Movement in the Supreme Court
on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the SUB Activities Room. This event is a collaboration between the Multicultural Affairs Center and the Women and Gender Studies Committee.
2016 Kohlenberg-Towne Lecture
As part of TSU’s History Department’s current WWI series, Dr Shawn Faulkner, Professor of Military History, US Army General Command and Staff College, Leavenworth, KS, will present the 2016 Kohlenberg-Towne Lecture. Please join us on Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 7pm in Baldwin Hall Little Theatre (BH 176) for
“John J. Pershing: Missouri to the Meuse Argonne”
Faculty opening in history
Truman State University is seeking applicants for a non-tenure track faculty position in the History Department to begin August 2016. Must teach World History surveys, African History survey at the lower-division level, and a variety of major electives. See https://secure.truman.edu/positionlisting-s/positiondetails.asp?positionId=401
Harry Laughlin and Eugenics
This website examines a sample of documents and photographs from the Harry H. Laughlin collection from Truman State University. It introduces topics from the eugenics movement from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries as they relate to Harry Laughlin’s work. Harry H. Laughlin (1880-1943) was a professor at North Missouri Normal School of the First District in the early twentieth century and was a major actor in the eugenics movement in America. He served as the secretary and director of the Eugenics Records Office in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. After his death, his collection of eugenics materials was donated to Truman State University.
The African American Experience in Missouri Series Inaugural Lecture
The inaugural lecture of The African American Experience in Missouri series featuring Diane Mutti Burke, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, will be held at 7 p.m. on February 3 in Jesse Auditorium of Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia.
In her presentation, Contesting Slavery: Enslaved Missourians’ Enduring Struggle for Self-Determination, Mutti Burke will examine the lives of African Americans who were enslaved in mid-Missouri. Her talk is the first in an 18-month series planned for 2016 and 2017. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees are invited to start the evening at 6 p.m. with a light reception. A book signing for Mutti Burke’s 2010 release On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households (University of Georgia Press) will immediately follow the talk.
The lecture series, which is a collaboration between the State Historical Society of Missouri’s Center for Missouri Studies and MU’s Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, will explore the history of African Americans in Missouri from pre-statehood to the present. MU history professor Keona K. Ervin and SHSMO executive director Gary Kremer, both Center for Missouri Studies fellows known for research on African American history, are working together to create the series, which will include about a dozen lectures by top scholars in the field.
For details on The African American Experience in Missouri lecture series, visit http://shs.umsystem.edu or http://diversity.missouri.edu.
Sincerely,
The State Historical Society of Missouri
1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO 65201
573.882.7083 | shs.umsystem.edu
Global Issues Colloquium to Discuss Recent Central African Community
As part of the Global Issues Colloquium Series, classical and modern language professors Sana Camara and Ron Manning will moderate “Kirksville’s Newest Immigrants: A Growing Central African Community” at 7 p.m. Feb. 4 in Magruder Hall 2001.The colloquium will feature Kirksville resident Richard Yampayana, professors John Quinn and Sally Cook, and recent Congolese immigrants. The panel will explore the causes of the sudden influx of French-speaking African immigrants to Kirksville.
TSU’s Digital Library Introduces “Experiences from the Great War”
As part of a collaborative effort to highlight the centenary of World War I, the Truman State University Digital Library in Pickler’s Special Collections recently announced a new collection: Experiences from the Great War.
This collection is comprised of the E. M. Violette Collection of WWI Soldiers’ Letters and select WWI posters.
Bus trip to National WWI Museum
As part of the History department’s commemoration of the centennial of the Great War, Dr. Jeff Gall and 20 Truman students took a bus trip to the National World War I Museum Sunday, 8 November.
They had a great day with perfect weather for the “sold-out” trip, partially funded by the History Department Endowment. Everyone loved Arthur Bryant’s and the museum.
On the way the Kansas City, the group made a short detour to General Pershing’s home in LaClede.
History WWI Film Series
Truman’s History Department will present Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) for the fourth and final film in this fall’s World War I Film Series. Directed by Jean Renoir, this 1937 film is considered by many critics to be one of the masterpieces of French cinema. This story of French soldiers in a German prisoner of war camp explores crucial issues of social class as the old European order is collapsing among the ruins of the Great War.
Tuesday, November 10, 7:00 p.m. in the Baldwin Hall Little Theater. Discussion to follow.
