"With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the Civil War era in the Kansas-Missouri border region saw some of the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. This was a conflict that approached total war, engulfing the whole populace and challenging any notion of civility as Americans grappled with the problem of liberty and slavery face to face for the first time.
The Border Wars Conference, featuring sessions at both the Kansas City (Missouri) Central Library and the Plaza Branch, offers an exploration of this most uncivil of wars while providing insight into the ways in which societies can be fragmented by ideology and ultimately rebuilt upon different lines.
The Border Wars Conference is organized by the Kansas City Public Library, the Center for Regional Studies and the History Department at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, and the History Department at the University of Kansas. It is co-sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas, the Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Charitable Trust, Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area, the Bernardin Haskell Lecture Fund, and the Center for Regional Studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City."
For more information, and a list of speakers, follow the link below to the Kansas City public library website:
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