![]() ![]() I also want to thank our dean at UMKC, Carolyn Barber, who has supported this meeting by attending and providing financial assistance to ten of our students to participate. Ann Marie Ryan secured us a fantastic Keynote Speaker in Victoria Cain, and Glenn Lauzon handled all our registration needs. We try to engage and connect with one another because we must.įirst, I again want to thank the incredible OEH Executive Board for their hard work in putting on this conference-most specifically to Marie McCarther and Curtis Mason, who produced this program. We find a quiet space in our basements, plop the kids in front of the T V, hope for a good signal, and log on. As scholars of history, we know we are living at a time of incredible import, and while we don't yet know how it all ends, we do know for certain that our work is critical, and so we meet over ZOOM. We are in our homes, some of us with family members whose health is compromised, trying to make sense of the senseless. Here we are, at our annual meeting, gathering over ZOOM-some of us with our screens blacked out to hide our pajamas-because we are enduring an endless cycle of chaos, where we find ourselves forced to continue our work amidst the most challenging of circumstances. Like all of you, I have found 2020 to be a year of incredible turmoil.
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