This Place of Promise: A Historian's Perspective on 200 Years of Missouri History

by Gary R. Kremer

Conceived of as a way to commemorate Missouri's bicentennial of statehood, this unique work presents the perspective of Gary Kremer, one of the Show-Me State's foremost historians, as he ponders why history played out as it did over the course of the two centuries since Missouri's admittance to the Union. In the writing of what is much more than a survey history, Kremer, himself a fifth-generation Missourian, infuses the narrative with his vast knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082622248X
• ISBN13: 9780826222480
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"