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On April 14 and 15, Jeffrey McClurken, chair and professor of History and American Studies, visited fellow COPLAC school Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo. McClurken was the plenary speaker for Truman’s Student Research Conference, presenting on “Students as Digitally Enabled Scholars: Undergraduate Research in the Information Age.”  He also presented to TSU’s Library and […]

On April 12, Jeffrey McClurken, Professor and Chair of History and American Studies presented a paper, “Murder at the Asylum: A Pinkerton Detective in Readjuster Virginia,” as part of the panel, “Infiltrating Dangerous Spaces: The Rise of the Detective in the Late Nineteenth Century,” at the Organization of American Historians Annual Conference in Atlanta, Ga. […]