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Guerrillas in Our Midst

August 18, 2013 - December 29, 2013

Central Library

Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battl...

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Lincoln and the Abolitionists

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

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General Chaos: Missouri Families and General Order No. 11

Sunday, September 21, 2008 4:00pm

Central Library

In the aftermath of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas, Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr., became suspicious of local support for Confederate sy...

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Lincoln and Leadership

Thursday, February 5, 2009 6:30pm

Central Library

Recommended reading: Abraham Lincoln:...

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Jennifer Weber: Copperheads

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:30pm

Central Library

Related Reading: Abraham Lincoln: Lif...

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Michael Fellman - "I Came Not to Bring Peace, but a Sword"

Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:30pm

Central Library

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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Bud Bowie: Jefferson Davis and His Cause

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:30pm

Central Library

Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effect d...

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Quantrill in the Movies: John Tibbetts

Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:00pm

Central Library

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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Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder,...

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Granville Automatic

Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:00pm

Plaza Branch

The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is ins...

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