Following the roundtable session, the Thomas Jefferson Professors of the University of Missouri, the MU Department of History, and the university community will dedicate a magnolia tree on the Francis Quadrangle near the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Garden in memory of Professor Cunningham.

Roundtable Chair: Steven Watts, University of Missouri
Author of The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820

Participants:

Larry D. Gragg
Missouri University of Science & Technology
Author of Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660

Andrew W. Robertson
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Author of The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790-1900

Jeffrey L. Pasley
University of Missouri
Author of "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. (1926-2007) was Curators' Professor of History at the University of Missouri and one of the leading scholars of the political history of the early American Republic and the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. He was the recipient of several major awards and fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for Humanities, the University of Missouri Thomas Jefferson Award, and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal. He was the author of numerous books and articles, including The Jeffersonian Republicans: The formation of Party Organization, 1789-1801 (1957), The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power: Party Operations, 1801-1809 (1963), In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1987), and The Process of Government under Jefferson (1978), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.