Plaza Branch and Central Library will open late at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17 due to the Kansas City Marathon.
Sectional Crisis and Civil War on the Western Border, 1860-1865, moderated by William Piston, Missouri State University, and featuring talks by:
Randy Mullis, Command and General Staff College; The Illusion of Security and the Fragility of Peace: Kansas and Missouri on the Eve of the Civil War
Jonathan Earle, University of Kansas; “If I Went West, I Think I Would Go To Kansas”: Abraham Lincoln, the Sunflower State, and the Election of 1860
Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati; "Purely a question of power not one of law”: The Contours of Federal Occupation in Civil War Missouri, 1861-1863
Joseph M. Beilein Jr., University of Missouri – Columbia; The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Fashion of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri
Diane Mutti Burke, University of Missouri – Kansas City; “Slavery Dies Hard”: Enslaved Missourians’ Struggle for Freedom
Regular breaks are scheduled throughout this session. A question and answer session follows the presentations.
This event is co-sponsored by: Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas, Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Charitable Trust, Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area, Bernardin Haskell Lecture Fund, Center for Regional Studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City
