Part of Show-Me-Research Week, Santa Fe Trail Day is an opportunity to showcase a yearlong public history project by a team of undergraduates at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, in partnership with the ASH Scholars program in the Honors College. The event highlights Missouri's central role as the jumping off point of the Santa Fe Trail, a vital overland trade route to New Mexico beginning in 1821. The team's living history exhibit on Francis Quadrangle (1-3PM) will feature one of the most important products of that commercial corridor: the Missouri mule. Visitors can learn about the history of the overland trails, get information about the team's student-produced podcast, and take pictures with the mule. In the evening, historian Elliott West, prolific scholar and one of the stars of Ken Burns' docuseries The American Buffalo, will deliver a keynote speech entitled "The Santa Fe Trail: Three Centuries of Western History." The lecture will take place in Monsanto Auditorium in Bond Life Sciences Center, preceded by a reception beginning at 5PM.