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Signature Event
Thursday, September 11, 2014
6:30pm
From Kansas City’s signature Country Club Plaza to pristine shopping districts and neighborhoods across the country, J.C. Nichols’ imprint on the Amer...
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A conversation with eminent writer Ernest Hemingway, as portrayed by Rusty Sneary....
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In 1864, Confederate Gen. Sterling Price mounted a last-gasp raid into Missouri in hopes of capturing St. Louis and ultimately the state. The end of t...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
6:30pm
Historian David Goldfield discusses his vivid narrative history of the Civil War, America Aflame, which off...
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
4:00pm
David Meyers, a professor of medicine- cardiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, presents a discussion on Medicine in the Civil War....
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
6:30pm
Terry Beckenbaugh of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the first Civil War battle fought west of th...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in com...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
6:30pm
The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians di...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to res...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
6:30pm
The Civil War may have reached a turning point in 1864, when Ulysses S. Grant became general-in-chief of the Union armies, Confederate defeats continu...