Latest installment our virtual sears signature Public Events as we commemorate missouri new bicentennial. Missouri joined the union august 10, 1821. This period was an especially robust time for state formation. Indiana, mississippi, illinois, alabama and maine all acquired statehood. But with Great Respect to our brothers and sisters from illinois and indiana, their entrance into the union was not a headlight event. Nor of course was it as divisive as what happen here in missouri. Deciding the fate of missouri was a multiyear political crisis in which the nation was forced to reckon with the meaning of citizenship and freedom. Compromised measures ultimately cleared the way for statehood for missouri but the issue was so heated, so intense Thomas Jefferson famously likened to a fire bell in the night that will awaken and filled me with terror. Joining us tonight the editor of a new twovolume series that takes its title from that famous jefferson concern eight fire bell in the past mis
Formation. Indiana, mississippi, illinois, alabama and maine all acquired statehood. But with Great Respect to our brothers and sisters from illinois and indiana, their entrance into the union was not a headlight event. Nor of course was it as divisive as what happen here in missouri. Deciding the fate of missouri was a multiyear political crisis in which the nation was forced to reckon with the meaning of citizenship and freedom. Compromised measures ultimately cleared the way for statehood for missouri but the issue was so heated, so intense Thomas Jefferson famously likened to a fire bell in the night that will awaken and filled me with terror. Joining us tonight the editor of a new twovolume series that takes its title from that famous jefferson concern eight fire bell in the past missouri crisis published by the university of Missouri Press for the first installment is available now the second is due out later this year hopefully in december. Our first guest associate professor of
Missouri joined the union august 10, 1821. This period was an especially robust time for state formation. Indiana, mississippi, illinois, alabama and maine all acquired statehood. But with Great Respect to our brothers and sisters from illinois and indiana, their entrance into the union was not a headlight event. Nor of course was it as divisive as what happen here in missouri. Deciding the fate of missouri was a multiyear political crisis in which the nation was forced to reckon with the meaning of citizenship and freedom. Compromised measures ultimately cleared the way for statehood for missouri but the issue was so heated, so intense Thomas Jefferson famously likened to a fire bell in the night that will awaken and filled me with terror. Joining us tonight the editor of a new twovolume series that takes its title from that famous jefferson concern eight fire bell in the past missouri crisis published by the university of Missouri Press for the first installment is available now the
Willie Altizer passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph on 2024-04-19.