Mark A. Neels is a History Teacher at Chaminade College Preparatory School. This interview is based on his new book, Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor: Attorney General Edward Bates (Southern Illinois University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor? […]
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The Author’s Corner with Gregg Andrews
Gregg Andrews is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University. This interview is based on his new book, Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853–1920 (LSU Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Hard Times in an American […]
The Kansas City Star on Josh Hawley’s manliness
The Missouri Senator’s hometown newspaper pulled no punches after seeing Hawley’s run through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: Josh Hawley is a laughingstock. During Thursday night’s televised hearings of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, coup […]
Dealing with the painful past of a Native boarding school in Missouri
St. Regis Seminary opened on March 11, 1824 in Florissant, Missouri. Here PBS News Hour: In the last two years, Canada and several U.S. states have begun to recognize their histories with Native American boarding schools, institutions that set out […]
A Missouri legislative committee held a hearing on teaching race and racism. No Black parents, teachers, or scholars testified
Seriously? Here is Summer Ballentine at the Associated Press: A Missouri legislative committee on Monday held a hearing on how educators teach K-12 students about race and racism without hearing from any Black Missourians. No Black parents, teachers or scholars […]
What is going on at Southwest Baptist University?
From Inside Higher Ed: When Dwayne Walker went up for tenure this past academic year at Southwest Baptist University in Missouri, he was invited to a luncheon with members of the Board of Trustees. There, he says, trustees questioned him […]
Josh Hawley’s path to the insurrection
Josh Hawley, the Missouri senator who once had the support of liberal Republican John Danforth, is now the poster-boy for the far-right Republican Party. In this longform piece at The Washington Post, Michael Kranish chronicles how Hawley ascended to such […]