{"id":4002,"date":"2019-05-09T10:53:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:49","slug":"meacham-to-speak-at-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2019\/05\/09\/meacham-to-speak-at-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Meacham to Speak at Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will be the guest speaker for the <img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/05\/Meacham1CREDIT-Gasper-Tringale-PHOTO.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0annual R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues this fall. His speech, \u201cThe Soul of America: Moving Beyond Division and Hostility,\u201d will be at 10 a.m. Sept. 26 in the Looney Complex. Meacham will also be the featured guest at the annual Convocation luncheon at noon Sept. 26 in the Fulkerson Center.<\/p>\n<p>A contributing editor at TIME, Meacham writes for the magazine\u2019s Ideas section. He also pens \u201cThe Long View\u201d column in The New York Times Book Review. He served as Newsweek&#8217;s managing editor from 1998 to 2006 and editor from 2006 to 2010.<\/p>\n<p>His latest No. 1 New York Times bestseller, \u201cThe Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels,\u201d examines the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in U.S. history when hope overcame division and fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will be the guest speaker for the 26th\u00a0annual R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues this fall. His speech, \u201cThe Soul of America: Moving Beyond Division and Hostility,\u201d will be at 10 a.m. Sept. 26 in the Looney Complex. Meacham will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}