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Civil War
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry offers a new interpretation of the Confederacy that contends the South sowe...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Shawn Faulkner of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the condi...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2011
9:00am
In Person
The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2011
9:00am
In Person
The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...
Signature Event
Friday, November 11, 2011
1:30pm
In Person
Sectional Crisis and Civil War on the Western Border, 1860-1865, moderated by William Piston, Missouri State Univers...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Terry Beckenbaugh of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the first Civil War battle fought west of...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 24, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
The Plaza Branch concludes its annual Kansas City Architectures series, which in recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War focused on an...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Although relatively small compared to the great clashes to come, the Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) was a seminal event in American history....