If you would like to view other after words programs online, go to our web site, booktv. Org, type afterwards into the search bar and all previous after words episodes will be available. Welcome to springfield, missouri, we visited the city to explore its rich history and literary culture, located 80 miles east of the kansas border, springfield wag the site of many major conflicts during the civil war. Today it is the their largest city in the state, with a population of 167,000. With the help of our partners at media come, for the next hour and ten minutes well explore the local literary culture, starting with jeremy, the border between them, and as he shares the story of bleeding kansas, a conflict occurring along the kansas missouri border in the struggle over slavery. And the question of whether kansas territory would be open for slavery or free soil. Violence of 1850s is really about that question and becomes wrapped in so much more. You have sites over water and access to grazing
Force in eastern ukraine. She said putin would never tell me because i was the minister msn not. Unfortunately it happened. The violence in the conciliation and the story of the book is the story of an invisible line across the prairie landscape, and its creation and its contested meanings during the civil war era and the difficulty of the people along that line to move on with their lives in the late 19th century. The violent dispossession of group after Group Beginning with the ice age indians continuing through the mormons who had moved to western missouri under joseph smith entered the civil war era freedom and the question of whether kansas territory would be free and so the violence of the 1850s is really about the question but it becomes wrapped in so much more. Typical to other frontier locations of water and access to raising millions the magnifying credibly. Bleeding kansas is what will make a territory and inflates date from spreading into kansas. It is mostly missouri settl
Missouri, we took a driving tour museumcity with history on the square executive director john sellers. Were driving around the in springfield. And this Public Square is interesting. Its designed with the streets it in the center of each side, which is kind of rare. The corners. In but it was designed by one of the founders of springfield, campbell, who came here in 1830 with his family and wanted this to be the county designated newly Greene County of southwest donated 50 acres of land and the city sold 48 acres to get enough money for the courthouse and these two town remain, the county square. They built the courthouse in the center of the square and that became the side of Greene Countys county seat. And kind of got things started 1835 and 1838, the city was chartered. It all came about because what by now whicho go is an Historical Marker in the on whatsa building called water street. The reason its called water is was thethis intersection of several native american trails, becaus
Is involved in the civil war. It is just under 90 minutes. Good afternoon everyone, i am peter carmichael. I am also director of the institute. It is my pleasure to welcome back tj stiles. He spoke yesterday afternoon, as you all know. He spoke on george armstrong, based upon a book that he received the Pulitzer Prize for. He is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. This afternoon he will be speaking on another misunderstood character, jesse james. Hime james the study of at the point of a new wave of civil war scholarship that is focusing on guerrilla warfare. Beenf these authors have doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. Thanks to these scholars like mr. Stiles, we have a view of civil war military history. Jesse james unfortunately its sometimes used as a robin hood figure of the old west. We often see him as being a likeical apolitical those bandits who have always been compared to him. Mr. Stiles has taken this man and enabled us to the a man w
CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Civil War battle that was called “the first serious conflict between United States troops and the rebels” will be reenacted Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16.