{"id":1219,"date":"2016-10-28T08:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2016-10-28T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:49:41","slug":"whats-so-civil-about-war-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"What’s So Civil about War Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My good friend, and Civil War era historian, David Connon<\/a>, will be giving a number of presentations around Iowa, then heading to Milwaukee and Chicago in the next two weeks. I have listened to his presentation of “Josiah Bushnell Grinnell and the Iowa Underground Railroad” before and I came away fascinated! I am not a fan of history, at least I wasn’t. In High School, history was all dates and places to memorize just long enough to pass a test. In David’s presentations history is about people, meaning and convictions.<\/p>\n

Do yourself a favor and take a look at this schedule. If you can make one of his presentations, please do so! I will warn you, you very well may come away from his talk with a renewed appreciation for the history of our country and just a little bit of understanding why others made, and make decisions that just might differ from yours.<\/p>\n

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Wed., Nov. 2, 7:15 p.m., \u201cThe Propaganda campaign in Iowa,\u201d at the Des Moines Civil War Round Table<\/a>, meeting at the Machine Shed Restaurant<\/a>, 11151 Hickman Rd, Urbandale, IA 50322 (near Living History Farms).<\/p>\n

Thurs., Nov. 3, 7 p.m., \u201cJosiah Bushnell Grinnell and the Iowa Underground Railroad,\u201d at Kirkendall Public Library<\/a>, 1210 NW Prairie Ridge Dr, Ankeny, IA 50021.<\/p>\n

Sat., Nov. 5, sometime between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., \u201cThe Propaganda Campaign in Iowa,\u201d at History Camp Iowa 2016<\/a>, meeting at the State Historical Museum<\/a>, 600 E. Locust St., Des Moines, IA 50309.\u00a0 (An admission fee is required.\u00a0 I will update my Facebook page<\/a> when I have a specific starting time.)<\/p>\n

Wed., Nov. 9, 7 p.m., \u201cJosiah Bushnell Grinnell and the Iowa Underground Railroad,\u201d at Musser Public Library<\/a>, 304 Iowa Ave, Muscatine, IA 52761.<\/p>\n

Thurs., Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m., \u201cThe Propaganda Campaign in Iowa\u201d and \u201cA Confederate from Iowa,\u201d at the Civil War Round Table of Milwaukee<\/a>, meeting at the Wisconsin Club<\/a>, 900 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53233.<\/p>\n

Fri., Nov. 11, 7:15 p.m., \u201cThe Propaganda Campaign in Iowa\u201d and \u201cA Confederate from Iowa,\u201d at the Civil War Round Table of Chicago<\/a>, meeting at Holiday Inn O\u2019Hare<\/a>, 5615 N. Cumberland, Chicago, IL 60631.<\/p>\n

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My good friend, and Civil War era historian, David Connon, will be giving a number of presentations around Iowa, then heading to Milwaukee and Chicago in the next two weeks. I have listened to his presentation of “Josiah Bushnell Grinnell and the Iowa Underground Railroad” before and I came away…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}