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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
8:30pm
Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by a...
Sunday, January 20, 2013
2:00pm
Biographer Robert Farnsworth discusses his new eBook about the life, death, and legacy of Leon Jordan, a one-time po...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A specialist in the Atomic Age, Michael Scheibach examines how Americans in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s dealt with the threat of nuclea...
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...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
8:30pm
Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by a...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
8:30pm
Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by v...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Long viewed as unjust and mercenary, the Mexican-American War allowed the U.S. to seize control of vast expanses of the Southwest, paved the way for t...
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...
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...
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...