Missouri Conference on History

I wanted to take a moment to mention a great local (that is, relative to the Center for the Study of the Korean War!) conference: the 51st Annual Missouri Conference on History.

Hosted by the Missouri State University Department of History and held in Springfield, Missouri, this jewel of a conference always has interesting topics and speakers. This year's keynote speaker Kerby Miller, Curators’ Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is addressing “Irish” and “Scotch-Irish” in Ireland and America: Only “Two Traditions”?

This conference will be held April 15-17, 2009, in Springfield University Plaza Hotel and Convention Center, includes a variety of speakers presenting on a wide range of interesting topics, including: “Rethinking Atomic Euphoria in Bavaria: Josef Baumgartner’s Campaign Against Munich’s Atomic Research Reactor, 1953-1957” from Kyle Miller, University of Missouri; “The Purple Cross Society” by the Center's own Paul M. Edwards, Graceland University; “My Brother’s Keeper: World War II Prisoners of War and the German and Italian Communities in Missouri” by Derek R. Mallett, Texas A&M University; “A New Perspective on Meriwether Lewis’s Death” by Thomas C. Danisi, Independent Scholar; and more.

The web site (linked above) is maintained by the State Historical Society of Missouri, another great organization that we at the Center have always had a lot of respect for.