UCLA history professor will speak at annual Riddle Lecture Wednesday

Southeast Missouri State University will host a lecture by UCLA history professor and author Dr. Stephen Aron for its eighth annual Veryl L. Riddle Distinguished History Lecture on Wednesday at 7:30 pm in the University Center Ballroom. Aron, executive director of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center for the American West museum in Los Angeles, will speak on the topic "Missouri: The Confluence Area of America." Aron is currently editing a six-volume history of the American West, and has authored "American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State," "Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present," "Trading Cultures: The Worlds of Western Merchants" and "How the West War Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay." The lecture is free and open to the public.. ...