This year the meeting is on November 3. Historian, journalist, broadcaster, and jazz commentator Lee Lowenfish, author of Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman, will be the luncheon speaker, as he discusses “The Midwestern Republican Roots of Branch Rickey’s Racial Progressivism, 1920-1940.”

Attendees will have the opportunity to choose between two workshops, “Local Characters: Writing the History of Ordinary People” and “There’s More to Missouri Cemeteries than Burials,” and a guided tour of Picturing Native Americans in the Nineteenth Century: Lithographs from McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America, all at 9:30 a.m.

This event also marks the opening of Missouri Cities: Images from the Permanent Collection.

Links to registration and program information and to reports from previous meetings can be found at the left.