Primm Lecture

24th Annual
JAMES NEAL PRIMM LECTURE IN HISTORY

Sponsored by University of Missouri-St. Louis, the Department of History and the St. Louis Mercantile Library
Martha A. Sandweiss
“Beyond the Edge: A Recovered Tale of Race and Violence from St. Louis and the West”

Monday, September 10, 2012
7 p.m. St. Louis Mercantile Library University of Missouri–St. Louis
RSVP to primml@umsl.edu or 314-516-5775 by Sept. 4 Limited seating available.
Parking available in the West Drive Garage
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JAMES NEAL PRIMM LECTURE IN HISTORY
Each year this series brings to St. Louis a distinguished historian to share his or her current research through public lectures, seminars and informal meetings. It is intended to honor the memory of James Neal Primm.

James Neal Primm was born in Edina, Mo., and educated at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo. After active duty in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he received his graduate training at the University of Missouri-Columbia and was eventually appointed associate professor of history and director of the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection. Between 1958 and 1965, he served as dean, vice president and president of Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, but returned to Missouri in 1965 to become chairman of the history department at the newly founded University of Missouri-St. Louis. His publications include: “Economic Policy in the Development of a Western State,” “The American Experience,”“Lion of theValley: St. Louis, Missouri” and “A Forgone Conclusion:The Founding of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.”

He is a former member of the board of the Missouri Historical Society, and in 1987 was named Curators’ Professor of History in honor of his many contributions to scholarship, the university and the community. Professor Primm died in St. Louis on July 23, 2009, at the age of 91.

Martha A. Sandweiss is professor of history at Princeton University. Born and raised in St. Louis, Ms. Sandweiss holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University. She began her career as a photography curator at the Amon Carter Museum in Ft.Worth,Texas. She later taught American studies and history at Amherst College for twenty years. Her publications include "Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line" (2009), and "Print the Legend: Photography and the American West" (2002), winner of the Organization of American Historians’ Ray Allen Billington Award for the best book in American frontier history and the William P. Clements Award.
Sandweiss serves on the governing boards of the Organization of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society, and consults broadly on issues relating to the use of visual images for historical research and teaching.

THE JAMES NEAL PRIMM LECTURES IN HISTORY:
1989 David Brion Davis
1990 Stephen E.Ambrose
1991 JamesM.McPherson
1992 Thomas C. Holt
1993 David J.Weber
1994 BlancheWiesenCook
1995 RobertA.Nye
Dan T. Carter Joseph T. Glatthaar Barbara M. Cooper
1996 1997 1998 1999 Drew Gilpin Faust
2000 Robert Lipsyte
2001 Richard White
2002 F. Robert van der Linden
2003 Peter S. Onuf
2004 James B. Gilbert
2005 Kathleen Dalton
2006 T.J.Stiles
2007 Jay Gitlin
2008 David W. Blight
2009 SeanWilentz
2010 Mark E. Neely Jr.
2011 Robert R.Archibald