• Crowder College History Symposium Presents Dr. Bill Piston

The Crowder College History Symposium presents, author and historian, Dr. Bill Piston! His lecture, "Reaping the Whirlwind: The Guerrilla Conflict in Civil War Missouri" continues the speaker series November 9 at 6pm in the Wright Conference Center (601 Laclede Ave., Neosho, MO 64850).

Popular focus on notorious guerillas has obscured the complexity of Missouri’s civil war within the Civil War. The consequences of the conflict were not limited to those who took up arms. Historian and author William Garrett Piston will focus on the disorder that engulfed Missouri’s social structures, economic systems, and political institutions between 1861 and 1865. Although the war was a great tragedy, it overturned gender and racial norms in ways that produced opportunities for women and African Americans even amid hardship. A native of Tennessee, William Garrett Piston retired in 2017 from the Department of History at Missouri State University, where he taught courses on the Civil War and American Military History for twenty-nine years. He is the author, co-author, and editor of numerous books and articles, most of which focus on the Civil War in Missouri.

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Crowder College is sponsoring this program in partnership with the Missouri Humanities and with support from the Missouri Humanities Trust Fund.