Civil War

Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...

University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry offers a new interpretation of the Confederacy that contends the South sowe...

Shawn Faulkner of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the condi...

The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...

The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...

Sectional Crisis and Civil War on the Western Border, 1860-1865, moderated by William Piston, Missouri State Univers...

Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...

Terry Beckenbaugh of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the first Civil War battle fought west of...

The Plaza Branch concludes its annual Kansas City Architectures series, which in recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War focused on an...

Although relatively small compared to the great clashes to come, the Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) was a seminal event in American history....