Painting of Quantrill's Raid "Blood Stained Dawn", 1991, Watkins Museum of History.

THESIS

​The divisive actions pursued by the United States Federal Government during the
mid-nineteenth century led to ​William Quantrill's destruction of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. Despite the massive destruction and ​carnage Quantrill's raid produced, Lawrence was triumphantly able to embrace the tragedy by rebuilding stronger than it was before.

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