This Place of Promise: A Historian’s Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History

This Place of Promise: A Historian’s Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History
ISBN-10
0826274668
ISBN-13
9780826274663
Category
History
Pages
300
Language
English
Published
2021-11-30
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Author
Gary R. Kremer

Description

Conceived of as a way to commemorate Missouri’s bicentennial of statehood, this unique work presents the perspective of Gary Kremer, one of the Show-Me State's foremost historians, on how history has played out in the two centuries since Missouri’s admittance to the Union. In the writing of what is much more than a survey history, Kremer, himself a fifth-generation Missourian, infuses the narrative with his vast knowledge and personal experiences as he thoughtfully considers what being a Missourian has meant—across the many years and to this day—to all of the state’s people, and how the forces of history—time, place, race, gender, religion, and class—shaped people and determined their opportunities and choices, in turn creating communities of collective experience that draw upon the past in order to try to make sense of the present and plan for the future.

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