Border Wars Conference Session

The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and featuring talks by: Aaron Astor, Maryville College; The Lexington Weekly Caucasian: White Supremacist Discourse in Post-Civil War Western Missouri John McKerley, The State Historical Society of Missouri; Across the Bloody Chasm: Race, Liberalism, and the Reconstruction of Missouri Politics Brent Campney, University of Texas – Pan American; “A Negro Hunting Ground?”: White Supremacy and Racist Violence in Kansas from the Civil War to the Exodus Jeremy Neely, Missouri State University; The Quantrill Men Reunions: The Border Wars, Fifty Years On Jennifer Weber, University of Kansas; “William Quantrill Is My Homeboy,” or, The Border Wars Go to College 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

Border Wars Conference Session

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