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For the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union and Confederate soldiers through southern Washington County in the waning days of the summer of 1862 and piecing together the conditions that led to the worst single-day carnage in American history.
For the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union and Confederate soldiers through southern Washington County in the waning days of the summer of 1862 and piecing together the conditions that led to the worst single-day carnage in American history.
No local history would be complete without telling the compelling story of black citizens of Adams County. For this purpose, an exhibit entitled “Black Voices” will be featured in the
Central United Methodist Church will become a satellite for the Leawood-based Church of the Resurrection. Its history says much about Kansas City's, and it's own, past ties to slavery.
Muscatine Mayor J.A. Parvin is the focus of Daniel G. Clark's latest essay on the politics of race in Iowa leading up to the Civil War.