University Missourian (Columbia, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,921 issues from 1908 to 1916, published in Columbia, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The University Missourian began publication in 1908, the same year the Journalism School at the University of Missouri was founded. The School of Journalism hired three experienced newsmen as faculty: Walter Williams, editor of the Columbia Herald, who would be dean of the school; Silas Bent, from the staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and Charles G. Ross, from the St. Louis Republic. In 1909, Bent was replaced by Frank L. Martin from the Kansas City Star. According to Dean Williams, the Missourian provided practical experience to journalism students, as the paper afforded “a laboratory course in actual newspaper making.” Throughout its early years, faculty members served as editors of the Missourian, assigning stories to students. The editors maintained a careful vision for the paper, as Williams argued that the school had a responsibility to produce a quality newspaper for the community. While the early paper focused heavily on activities at the University of Missouri campus and in Columbia, the paper also featured news from Boone County and the rest of Missouri, as well as major national and international stories. During the early years, the paper suspended publication during summers and university holidays, reflecting its dependence on its student workers.
Several title changes followed. In 1916, the University Missourian became known as the Daily Missourian and in 1917-20 as the Evening Missourian. From 1920 to 1923, the paper was named the Columbia Evening…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Columbia, Missouri, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress