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Signature Event 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... Read More
Signature Event Lincoln and Leadership Thursday, February 5, 2009 6:30pm Central Library Recommended reading: Abraham Lincoln:... Read More
Signature Event Jennifer Weber: Copperheads Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:30pm Central Library Related Reading: Abraham Lincoln: Lif... Read More
Signature Event 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... Read More
Signature Event 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... Read More