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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.

Visit http://historyofeugenics.truman.edu/

Presented By The Truman Faculty Forum
The World In A Game: How Chess Paved The Way For Globalization
A Lecture by Torbjörn Wandel, Professor Of History
Wednesday November 4, 2015, at 7:00 pm
In Baldwin 176 (Little Theatre)
In his world history of this ancient game, Torbjörn Wandel does not just tell an engaging tale that takes us from ancient India and Persia through the Islamic world into al-Andaluz, medieval Europe, Renaissance Sicily, Spain, and beyond. Through his history of the game, he also reveals surprising paths and patterns of globalization that offer a fresh perspective on world history itself.
For more information on the Truman Faculty Forum series go to forum.truman.edu

Dr. Jason McDonald, visiting assistant professor of history, is a featured speaker at a November 6-7, 2015 symposium at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City on the Global War, 1915 | Empires at War, Churchill’s Gallipoli and an America Divided. This symposium explores the rising tensions in America and the globally escalating conflict that defined the world in 1915.

Jerrold Hirsch, professor emeritus of history, has published, “Kentucky Folk Art: New Deal Approaches,” in Kentucky By Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture, ed. Andrew Kelly. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2015. The book has been nominated for the Fred Kniffen Book Award for the best authored book in the field of North American material culture and for the Allen Nobel Book Award given in honor of superior scholarship in the field of North American material culture.

Huping Ling, Professor of History and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor of the Chinese Ministry of education, has been selected as a Visiting Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2016.

The Hoover Institution offered the fellowship to assist “(Dr. Ling’s) research at the Hoover Institution of Libraries and Archives regarding her research project ‘Sward Blue: A Chiang-Kai-shek’s Man’,” according to the appointment letter from the Hoover Institution. Professor Ling’s research aspires to explore the currently under-explored areas of the Nationalist history in China from the 1930s to 1949, utilizing the newly unclassified records of Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek, T. V. Soong Papers, Kuomintang Project, etc. at the Hoover Institution Archives.

Huping Ling, Professor of History and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor, the Chinese Ministry of education, has published the following books:

1. Jinshan Yao: A New Chinese American History (in the Overseas Chinese History Series, China Overseas Chinese Publishing House, 2016).

2. Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (co-editor, 2 Vols. M. E. Sharpe, 2010, Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin Editors’ Choice 2010 Award, Chinese edition in the Overseas Chinese Studies Translation Series, World Book Publishing Company 2016).

3. Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870 (Chinese edition, in the Overseas Chinese Studies Translation Series, World Book Publishing Company, 2015).

4. Jinshan Yao: A History of Chinese American Women (Expanded and Revised Edition in Classical Chinese. In the Showwei Social Sciences Series, Taipei: Showwei, 2015).

Jerry Hirsch, professor of history, received the 2015 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education from Gov. Jay Nixon, April 7 in Jefferson City.

Hirsch was one of the 15 outstanding faculty members, each representing a Missouri college or university, to be recognized at a luncheon hosted by the Council on Public Higher Education for their commitment to excellent education for Missouri citizens.

Hirsch began his career at Truman in 1989. He received his bachelor’s degree from Antioch College and both his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of the American Folklore Society, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Society, the Southern Historical Association and the Society for Disability Studies.

The HIST 319 presentations at the SRC were very successful and the students did a terrific job!