Southeast branch is opening late at noon on Saturday, September 28, due to staffing issues.
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murd...
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...
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
In Person
Military historian Terry Beckenbaugh examines the failed 1863 attack on the Confederacy’s Fort Wagner on Charleston Harbor – an in...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 8, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effec...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Musician/historian James Christopher Edwards brings the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri to life in this musical program about the...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...