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Signature Event
Thursday, May 15, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
For most of the Civil War, the role of cavalry was limited to reconnaissance and screening infantry movements. But at the Battle of Yellow Tavern (Vir...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Despite a Union advantage in men and resources, the Confederates dominated in the early months of the Civil War. Only one federal general seemed to ha...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
6:30pm
Even for those of us unfamiliar with history, the very name “Gettysburg” suggests a monumental clash of armies. But beyond the chaos of the battle its...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Co...
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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...
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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...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:30pm
Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...
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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...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
6:30pm
Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with K...
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...