We also heard knowledgeable and interesting speakers. It was well worth the week long adventure! I highly recommend applying for an NEH summer institute in the future. I will be!
I made it home form Kansas City, Missouri a little more tired then when I left and a lot more knowledgable on the Boarder Wars and Bleeding Kansas. I had an amazing time and visited many interesting sites and battlefields. It was History Geek Heaven! Throughout the course of the week, we visited many sites relating to the Boarder Wars and the Civil War. Some of the places we saw were the homestead of Jesse James, the Battle of Island Mound, Lecompton and Lawerence Kansas, just to name a few. We saw a movie called Ride With the Devil. This movie was about the confrontation between the jayhawkers and the Bushwhackers on the Kansas/Missouri Boarder. It stared Tobey Maguire, The really cool thing about the movies was we visited some of the historical sites used in the movie shoot! Picture source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134154/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
We also heard knowledgeable and interesting speakers. It was well worth the week long adventure! I highly recommend applying for an NEH summer institute in the future. I will be!
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