The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 18, 2013
6:30pm
Military historian Terry Beckenbaugh examines the failed 1863 attack on the Confederacy’s Fort Wagner on Charleston Harbor – an incid...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 8, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to res...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:30pm
The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians di...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in com...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effect d...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
6:30pm
Shawn Faulkner of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the conditio...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
6:30pm
Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
6:30pm
Terry Beckenbaugh of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the first Civil War battle fought west of th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
6:30pm
Although relatively small compared to the great clashes to come, the Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) was a seminal event in American history. Whe...