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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....
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Howard Frank Mosher discusses his new book Walking to Gatlinburg: A Novel on Tuesday,...
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...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Betty Ford is known for her battles with breast cancer and substance abuse. But perhaps even more than these struggles, says biograph...
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...
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...
Sunday, September 22, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is...
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...