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The Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative is a collaborative effort that expands the amount of information available online about Missouri's past. In 2007, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan proposed this landmark initiative to further Missourians’ access to information about the history of Missouri and local communities.
The Society engages in a number of outreach programs to bring Missouri's history to the public. Such programs are the Missouri History in Performance theatre, the Missouri History Speakers' Bureau, and the Missouri Conference on History. The collection of the Society, concerning pamphlets, books, and state publications, is over 460,000 items.
The Missouri Historical Society was founded in St. Louis on August 11, 1866. [1] Founding members created the historical society "for the purpose of saving from oblivion the early history of the city and state".
A Second Home: Missouri's Early Schools (U of Missouri Press, 2006) online; a scholarly history; Troen, Selwyn K. "Popular education in nineteenth century St. Louis." History of Education Quarterly 13.1 (1973): 23-40. Troen, Selwyn K. The Public and the Schools: Shaping the St. Louis System, 1838–1920 (1975), a major scholarly study online
MU High School was established and accredited by the NCA in 1999 as a program of the University of Missouri's Center for Distance and Independent Study (CDIS). The launch of MU High School was part of a broader trend of university-affiliated online high schools started by brick-and-mortar universities like Stanford University's Stanford University Online High School and Indiana University ...
In 2000, the college launched its Online Campus, which now offers more than 500 online courses and 18 online degrees. The Columbia College Cougars women's volleyball program captured two consecutive National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) championships in 1998 and 1999 with perfect 45–0 and 44–0 records, respectively.
School Location(s) [3] Control [3] Type [3] Enrollment [3] [4] Founded University of Missouri: Columbia: Public: Doctoral/very high activity research university: 31,013 1839 University of Missouri–Kansas City: Kansas City: Public: Doctoral/high activity research university: 15,277 1933 Missouri University of Science and Technology: Rolla: Public
The school colors were purple and white, and the college's motto, often attributed to its founder, wealthy farmer David Rankin, was "Set Fire, Tarkio!" [ 2 ] One of the school's most famous structures was the Mule Barn Theatre, an octagon -shaped structure used originally to house mules.