BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20241024T230000Z DTEND:20241025T010000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Crowder College History Symposium Presents: Dr. Michael Powers DESCRIPTION:The Crowder College History Symposium presents Dr. Michael Powers! His lecture will continue the History Symposium series of speakers on October 24 at 6pm in the Wright Conference Center (601 Laclede Ave.\, Neosho\, MO 64850).\n\n\n\nDr. Powers Lecture Topic: "Burke and Capit n Imboden: The Workings of a Community of Confederate Veterans in Central America."\n\nHis talk will examine the ways former Confederates living in Honduras in the late 19th century participated in coup d' tats and political maneuverings while also striving to become leading industrialists. While filibusters and banana companies have been widely studied\, Dr. Powers sheds light on a more unexplored yet fascinating era wherein Southerners attempted to form a community as capitalist politicos in the rough and tumble world of Central America.\n\n\n\nAbout Dr. Powers: Michael Shane Powers earned his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. He is an Assistant Professor in the Dr. Arnoldo De Le n Department of History at Angelo State University in San Angelo\, Texas. His research focuses on reciprocal links between the Gulf South and Latin America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When not employed in scholarly pursuits\, Dr. Powers enjoys fishing and watching sports.\n\n \n\n\n\nClick to view the full symposium schedule!\n\n\n\nCrowder College is sponsoring this program in partnership with the Missouri Humanities and with support from the Missouri Humanities Trust Fund. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Crowder College History Symposium presents Dr. Michael Powers! His lecture will continue the History Symposium series of speakers on \;October 24 at 6pm in the Wright Conference Center (601 Laclede Ave.\, Neosho\, MO 64850).
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\nDr. Powers Lecture Topic: \;"\;Burke and Capitá\;n Imboden: The Workings of a Community of Confederate Veterans in Central America."\;
\nHis talk will examine the ways former Confederates living in Honduras in the late 19th century participated in coup d'\;é\;tats and political maneuverings while also striving to become leading industrialists. While filibusters and banana companies have been widely studied\, Dr. Powers sheds light on a more unexplored yet fascinating era wherein Southerners attempted to form a community as capitalist politicos in the rough and tumble world of Central America.
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\nAbout Dr. Powers: \;Michael Shane Powers earned his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. He is an Assistant Professor in the Dr. Arnoldo De Leó\;n Department of History at Angelo State University in San Angelo\, Texas. His research focuses on reciprocal links between the Gulf South and Latin America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When not employed in scholarly pursuits\, Dr. Powers enjoys fishing and watching sports.
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\nClick to view the full symposium schedule!
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\nCrowder College is sponsoring this program in partnership with the Missouri Humanities and with support from the Missouri Humanities Trust Fund.
\n LOCATION:Wright Conference Center (Crowder College\, Farber Hall\, 601 Laclede Ave.\, Neosho\, MO 64850). UID:e.2144.13111 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260424T190551Z URL:https://www.neoshocc.com/events/details/crowder-college-history-symposium-presents-dr-michael-powers-13111 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR