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The Illinois & St. Louis Bridge: An Engineering Marvel, Scribner's Magazine Nov 2010

The Illinois & St. Louis Bridge: An Engineering Marvel, Scribner's Magazine

The Confluence (2009-2020)

This reprint of an 1871 article from Scribner’s Magazine extols the new Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (Eads Bridge today) as an engineering marvel—which, incidentally, it was.


The Strange Case Of The Courts, A Car, And The 1910 Batting Title, Steven Gietschier Nov 2010

The Strange Case Of The Courts, A Car, And The 1910 Batting Title, Steven Gietschier

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Ty Cobb and Napoleon Lajoie were fighting for the 1910 American League batting title right down to the end of the season. Who won was under dispute, and it landed the St. Louis Browns in court. Gietschier looks at the case files involving the Browns manager who was fired over accusations that he tried to let Lajoie win the title—and a new car.


President's Notebook, Summer 2010, James Evans Aug 2010

President's Notebook, Summer 2010, James Evans

James Evans

University updates and personal thoughts from Lindenwood University President, James Evans.


President's Notebook, Spring 2010, James Evans Jun 2010

President's Notebook, Spring 2010, James Evans

James Evans

University updates and personal thoughts from Lindenwood University President, James Evans.


The Journey Of The Sisters Of Charity To St. Louis, 1828, Carole Prietto May 2010

The Journey Of The Sisters Of Charity To St. Louis, 1828, Carole Prietto

The Confluence (2009-2020)

In 1828, four Sisters of Charity left Maryland to establish a new mission in the frontier city of St. Louis. For the first time, herein is the diary of one of the travelers in this remarkable and dangerous journey.


Cash For Clunkers: Did It Work Or Not?, Anthony Clark, Annette Najjar, Ralph Wiedner May 2010

Cash For Clunkers: Did It Work Or Not?, Anthony Clark, Annette Najjar, Ralph Wiedner

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 (CARS) was supposed to stimulate the American economy with incentives to trade in old gas-guzzling cars for new, more efficient ones. Three economists examine the impact of this program that came to be called “Cash for Clunkers” on the St. Charles County, Missouri, economy.


America’S First Interstate—The National Road And Its Reach Toward St. Clair County, Illinois, Andrew Theising May 2010

America’S First Interstate—The National Road And Its Reach Toward St. Clair County, Illinois, Andrew Theising

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The National Road was to span from Maryland to the Mississippi River, but never made it—in part due to a political battle over the location of the new Illinois state capital in the 1830s.


Spring/Summer 2010, Full Issue May 2010

Spring/Summer 2010, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


St. Louis: Air Mail Pioneer, David Straight May 2010

St. Louis: Air Mail Pioneer, David Straight

The Confluence (2009-2020)

In the decades after the Wright Brothers launched their first plane at Kitty Hawk, St. Louis was an aviation hub. Within a decade after that flight, the first airmail left Kinloch Field in St. Louis, with people sending what they knew were historic letters.


How Natural Is Nature? The Effect Of Burning On Presettlement Vegetation In West-Central Illinois, Paul Kilburn, Richard C. Brugam May 2010

How Natural Is Nature? The Effect Of Burning On Presettlement Vegetation In West-Central Illinois, Paul Kilburn, Richard C. Brugam

The Confluence (2009-2020)

When the first Euroamericans arrived in North America, they thought they were seeing a “wilderness,” unaltered by human hands. However, they were actually seeing highly managed environments. Kilburn and Brugam examine the impact of the burning of forests and prairies by Native Americans on the plant species in west-central Illinois.


From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith May 2010

From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


2009-2010 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University Apr 2010

2009-2010 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University

Honors Convocation Programs

2009-2010 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation


Centers For Excellence 2010: We Succeed When Our Student Succeed, Lindenwood University Feb 2010

Centers For Excellence 2010: We Succeed When Our Student Succeed, Lindenwood University

University Documents

Promotional booklet for Lindenwood University.


Gender And Dormitories At Lindenwood College 1968-1970, A. J. Medlock Jan 2010

Gender And Dormitories At Lindenwood College 1968-1970, A. J. Medlock

Student Scholarship

In the fall of 1969, as a result of the creation of a separate men’s college, Lindenwood College became faced with the problem of intervisitation, the issue of allowing men and women to visit each other in their dorm rooms. The problems of intervisitation at Lindenwood would illustrate the complexities many college administrations experienced with the doctrine of In loco parentis, a Latin term school administrations used to regulate the morals of students. America’s changing social mores forced universities to confront students who demanded control over matters concerning their personal lives, including sexual relations between men and women.


Come See The New Lu, Lindenwood University Jan 2010

Come See The New Lu, Lindenwood University

University Documents

No abstract provided.


2010 Lindenwood University Annual Report, Lindenwood University Jan 2010

2010 Lindenwood University Annual Report, Lindenwood University

State of the University Address (Formerly Annual Reports or President's Reports/)

The 2010 annual report of Lindenwood University.


Burning Men In Effigy: Lindenwood Ladies Confront Changing Gender Ideals, Julian Barr Nov 2009

Burning Men In Effigy: Lindenwood Ladies Confront Changing Gender Ideals, Julian Barr

Student Scholarship

Lindenwood was founded in 1827 as a women’s college and it took 142 years to break this tradition. In the fall 1968 semester returning students came back and found a big surprise. That year the first men came to campus and changed Lindenwood forever. Periodically men could be found in any given year that were part of the theater program but it wasn’t until 1968 when men were admitted and given a dorm. In 1969 Lindenwood expanded as a coordinate college with Lindenwood I and Lindenwood II and later became a single college, as it is now. This seems like …


Worker Number 74530, Kate L. Gregg Nov 2009

Worker Number 74530, Kate L. Gregg

The Confluence (2009-2020)

In 1943, Lindenwood English professor and historian Kate Gregg became a Rosie the Riveter at the St. Louis Ordinance Plant. This is her story.


Fall 2009, Full Issue Nov 2009

Fall 2009, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith Nov 2009

From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


Against Pain, David L. Straight Nov 2009

Against Pain, David L. Straight

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Talk about junk mail! Makers of Antikamnia tablets, a pain reliever in turn-of-the-century St. Louis, used the mail to sell this patent medicine that was investigated by the new Food and Drug Administration in the Theodore Roosevelt administration.


The Seeds Of St. Louis Regionalism, Mark Abbott Nov 2009

The Seeds Of St. Louis Regionalism, Mark Abbott

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Harland Bartholomew’s 1948 regional plan was not a radical departure, but heir to almost a century of regional thinking and planning—including more than three dozen airports.


“We Shall Be Literally ‘Sold To The Dutch’”, Mark Alan Neels Nov 2009

“We Shall Be Literally ‘Sold To The Dutch’”, Mark Alan Neels

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The politicization of immigrant groups is nothing new, as this study of German immigrants and anti-German sentiment suggests.


Where Rivers And Ideas Meet, James D. Evans Nov 2009

Where Rivers And Ideas Meet, James D. Evans

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The St. Louis region is situated right at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, which has been constantly changing over the centuries—just like the rest of the region.


Slave And Soldier, William Glankler Nov 2009

Slave And Soldier, William Glankler

The Confluence (2009-2020)

New court records shed light on the complex relationships of slavery when a slave enlists in the Union Army during the Civil War.


The History Of The Illinois River And The Decline Of A Native Species, Paige Mettler-Cherry, Marian Smith Nov 2009

The History Of The Illinois River And The Decline Of A Native Species, Paige Mettler-Cherry, Marian Smith

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Floodplains as connectors to rivers are essential parts of the ecosystem; endangered plants chart progress or decline on the the Illinois River.


President's Notebook, Fall 2009, James Evans Sep 2009

President's Notebook, Fall 2009, James Evans

James Evans

University updates and personal thoughts from Lindenwood University President, James Evans.


President's Notebook, Summer 2009, James Evans Jun 2009

President's Notebook, Summer 2009, James Evans

James Evans

University updates and personal thoughts from Lindenwood University President, James Evans.


2008-2009 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University Apr 2009

2008-2009 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University

Honors Convocation Programs

2008-2009 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation


President's Notebook, Spring 2009, James Evans Mar 2009

President's Notebook, Spring 2009, James Evans

James Evans

University updates and personal thoughts from Lindenwood University President, James Evans.