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November 25, 2009 Call for Papers - 52nd Missouri Conference on History - deadline extendedThe deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to December 15, 2009.Proposals for conference sessions and papers are welcome on any historical topic or era. The conference is particularly interested in proposals for complete sessions, including panelists, chair, and commentator. posted @ 9:38 AM November 19, 2009 The $75 Challenge : A Fundraising CampaignExecutive Director's talk at the Society's recent Annual Meeting outlining the challenges facing the Society We are appealing to our friends and members for help with this drastic decrease in the Society’s funding. Upon hearing about the cut, one of our members suggested that if each member, all 4,867, made a $75 pledge we would raise $365,000—the amount needed to replenish our cut funds. We have responded with The $75 Challenge and need your help to meet the goal! If you’re already a Society member, will you consider joining other members and giving $75 or more? If you’re a Society friend, will you consider joining other friends and members in giving $75 or more? Will you also consider becoming a Society member? Membership dues help pay for research materials, exhibits, and programs. Please take this opportunity to help the Society. For the citizens of Missouri, we collect, preserve, and publish the history of the state. We also support learning opportunities in all areas of the state’s heritage. Won’t you help us continue to fulfill our mission? Donations can be made securely online Or with this form The State Historical Society of MissouriAll gifts are tax deductible, and each donation will be acknowledged with a letter that can be used as a receipt for tax purposes. Thank you for taking The $75 Challenge! posted @ 1:41 PM November 05, 2009 Mormon Passage through Missouri: A lecture by Fred E. Woods, Professor of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University
On Wednesday, November 11, the State Historical Society of Missouri and the MU Department of History will sponsor a talk by Brigham Young Professor Fred E. Woods. Woods will discuss the emigration experience of Latter-day Saints who passed through the state of Missouri during the three decades following the extermination order and present several Mormon emigrant accounts recorded during the mid-nineteenth century. Woods reveals a neglected period in Mormon and state history when the Saints continued their journey over hundreds of Missouri miles by boat, rail, and trail in spite of an official government death threat to all those who dared trespass upon Missouri soil. Professor Woods holds the Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding in Brigham Young University’s Department of Religious Education. posted @ 9:53 AM November 03, 2009 State Historical Society of Missouri Hours and Services CutDue to a 25 percent withholding in its fiscal year 2010 state appropriation, the State Historical Society of Missouri is decreasing its hours open to the public to Mondays through Thursdays, 8:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m., effective immediately. The Society will no longer be open for research on Fridays or Saturdays.The withholding ($364,010), caused by the continued downturn in Missouri state revenues, was made public last Wednesday, October 28. The State Historical Society’s response to the withholding, determined by its board of trustees, was announced at the annual membership meeting in Columbia on Saturday, October 31. To continue operations and implement the withholding, the Society’s twenty-two staff members have voluntarily taken a 20 percent pay reduction, and three staff positions have been eliminated. These positions included one unfilled position left temporarily vacant due to a 10 percent reduction in the Society’s FY2010 budget on July 1, 2009, one retirement, and one layoff. The Society will seek private funds to continue its newspaper microfilming program and to print the award-winning Missouri Historical Review. The microfilming program annually preserves over 250 Missouri newspaper titles and adds these papers to the fine collection available for research at the State Historical Society. Missouri newspaper publishers, libraries, and local historical and genealogical societies also rely on purchasing these microfilmed papers for in-house use and to add to their research collections. The Missouri Historical Review is sent quarterly to over 4,800 members of the State Historical Society in Missouri and throughout the United States. Scholars, students, and the public use the journal for the study of the state’s history. The popular Missouri History Speakers’ Bureau, which furnishes speakers to local civic, historical, and genealogical groups, will be discontinued. The State Historical Society has sponsored 34 Speakers’ Bureau presentations around the state since the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1. A MoHiP (Missouri History in Performance) Theatre production on the life and times of John William “Blind” Boone already scheduled for March 19, 2010, in Columbia will be held. Future performances by MoHiP, the State Historical Society’s reader’s theatre offering original productions based on historical characters and events, will not be scheduled. “The reduced hours will have a significant impact on genealogists, students, and scholars who make use of the State Historical Society’s collections,” said Gary R. Kremer, the executive director. “And local organizations that have used scholars well-versed on a variety of historical topics will lose access to a much-needed source for speakers.” The 25 percent withholding reduces the Society’s state funding to 65 percent of the FY2009 appropriation. posted @ 11:53 AM November 02, 2009 Effective November 1 the Society will be open only Monday - Thursday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.posted @ 9:16 AM |
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