Lawrence Journal-World

Fiddling & Picking Championships, Civil War on the Border, bird watching, cinema, KU football and more events

Civil War on the Border: Quantrill’s Raid Walking Tour, 8-9:30 a.m. Tickets and location information at watkinsmuseum.org. Civil War on the Border: Early Churches of Lawrence Walking Tour, 10 ...
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Lawrence Civil War Memorial Guard begins 2-day event tomorrow [The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.]

<chron>Sept. 20--LAWRENCE -- A tombstone at the Bellevue Cemetery tells the story of John Kendall Norwood, one of the city's honored Civil War soldiers. "Wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 and ...
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Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era

Sutton, former chief historian of the National Park Service, chronicles the turbulent history of Lawrence, Kans., which was founded by the disciples of Amos Adams Lawrence, a Boston businessman turned ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Historians in Kansas highlight their effort to restore Civil War flags and the human stories behind them

Images of some of the 19th Century flags in the Kansas Historical Society's collection that have degraded over time. Tom Schmidt is one of the people spearheading a program that would help raise funds ...
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From these honored dead : historical archaeology of the American Civil War / edited by Clarence R. Geier, Douglas D. Scott, and Lawrence E. Babits

Introduction / Clarence R. Geier, Lawrence E. Babits, and Douglas D. Scott -- Part I: The flow of battle and battlefield landscapes -- Civil War archaeology in the Trans-Mississippi west / Douglas D.