A Quantum of Quantrill

Signature Event

The Sack of Lawrence and the Guerrilla War

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:30pm
Central Library
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, examines the notorious massacre and the years of back-and-forth atrocities by Confederate bushwackers and pro-Union Jayhawkers that...
Signature Event

Quantrill in the Movies: John Tibbetts

Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:00pm
Central Library
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert John Tibbetts explores how that dramatic story has found its way onto celluloid in movies as varied as Dark Command (1940), Quantrill’s Raiders...
Exhibition

Guerrillas in Our Midst

August 18, 2013 - December 29, 2013
Central Library
Before and during the Civil War, Confederate guerrillas – men like William Clarke Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and Frank and Jesse James – battled federal troops and Jayhawker irregulars along the Missouri-Kansas border. That brutal era comes to life in Guerrillas in Our Midst, an or...