Retired NASA Astronaut and University of Missouri Professor Emerita Linda Godwin, Ph.D., will be the featured speaker at the State Historical Society of Missouri annual meeting and My Missouri lecture Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Center for Missouri Studies, 605 Elm St., Columbia. The annual

A new exhibition in the William Guitar Little Missouri Gallery of Art welcomes visitors to consider the ways representation, power, and perspective shape our historical understanding of Native American people. Indigenous Identities: From State Sanctioned Portraiture to Native Self

Art historian Matthew Knox Averett, Ph.D., will be giving the African American Experience in Missouri lecture at the State Historical Society of Missouri, 605 Elm St., Columbia, Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. The presentation is titled “Where Frankie Met Johnny: Targee Street and the Making of Black St. Louis

Organizers of the 69th Annual Missouri Conference on History is asking for proposals for papers, panels, and posters in all fields of history, including public history and historic preservation. The conference, to be held in St. Louis, is particularly interested in proposals for complete