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Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effec...

Shawn Faulkner of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the condi...

Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...

Terry Beckenbaugh of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the first Civil War battle fought west of...

Although relatively small compared to the great clashes to come, the Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) was a seminal event in American history....

Historian David Goldfield discusses his vivid narrative history of the Civil War, America Aflame, which off...

Katie Armitage explores how survivors of Quantrill’s Lawrence Raid rebuilt their lives, their town, and memorialized their exper...

Author Marc Wortman discusses his new book The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta on Wed...

Historian Ron Smith discusses his new book Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General....

Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by a...