The Center for Regional History and Cultural Heritage will sponsor a lecture on "Archives and Politics" by Kenneth Winn at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the University Center Ballroom.
Following the presentation, an informal question and answer session and reception will be held.
Before his appointment as Missouri's state archivist in 1991, Winn achieved distinction as an author and historian.
His book, "Exiles in a Land of Liberty: Mormons in America, 1830-1846," was published in 1989. From 1987 to 1991, he served as director of publications and editor of Gateway Heritage for the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis.
He has continued to serve as adjunct professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. He is writing a biography of George Caleb Bingham.
The free lecture is open to anyone.
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