My name is Matt Oehring, and I recently graduated with my Masters in History with a focus in Museum Studies and Public History back in August, I postponed my graduation for the Summer to go on the Ikliana Archeological Field School trip in Greece. My exit project was researching, designing, writing, and giving a city bus tour of various sites in St. Louis, and how they made our city a perfect example of how quickly the public perception of death and the practices surrounding it changed rapidly in the mid 19th century, all done in partnership with the Missouri History Museum. After returning from Greece in July, I've been working full time as a contractor with Golden Arrow Research, a private military genealogical research company that focuses on locating, retrieving, and interpreting the historical documents of U.S. soldiers from World War I, II, and as early as the late 19th century from the National Public Record Center located in Spanish Lake. It's been an exciting, fulfilling job, and I've never been more satisfied in the kind of work I do.