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Exhibit
August 18, 2013
- December 29, 2013
Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battl...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 17, 2017
6:30pm
Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 21, 2008
4:00pm
In the aftermath of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas, Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr., became suspicious of local support for Confederate sy...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 5, 2009
6:30pm
Recommended reading:
Abraham Lincoln:...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
6:30pm
Related Reading:
Abraham Lincoln: Lif...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
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 11, 2013
6:30pm
When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the country....