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Sunday, August 16, 2009
4:00pm
In Person
Comprised largely of free-state sympathizers, the German community of Concordia was located in Lafayette County, which contained more slaves tha...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Ron Smith discusses his new book Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General....
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
In Person
Military historian Terry Beckenbaugh examines the failed 1863 attack on the Confederacy’s Fort Wagner on Charleston Harbor – an in...
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...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
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...
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submar...
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...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
9:00pm
In Person
The Writers at Work series returns for the 2008-09 season with A Conversation with Ethan Canin hosted by Kans...
Thursday, February 5, 2009
6:30pm
In Person
A panel of military historians from the United States Army’s Command and General Staff College discusses Lincoln’s leadership tr...