Northern Kentucky History Hour
Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. on Zoom and Facebook Live
Hosted by Shane Noem and Tara Johnson-Noem, Vice President of the BCM Board of Trustees, NKY History Hour is a weekly offering of Behringer-Crawford Museum focused on Northern Kentucky history, featuring local authors, historians and archaeologists.
NKY History Hour presentations are currently free to the public during this introductory period but may become a BCM members-only benefit in the future. To support NKY History Hour and access many other entertaining and thought-provoking programs for free, join BCM today.
Find all of our past presentations on our YouTube channel.
NKY History Hour: Flying High: Murder on the Ohio Belle
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Author and historian Stuart W. Sanders will discuss his new book, "Murder on the Ohio Belle," which examines interpersonal violence, southern honor culture, vigilante justice, and the Civil War through the lens of an 1856 murder on a Cincinnati-based steamboat.
Stuart W. Sanders is the author of four books, including "Murder on the Ohio Belle," "Perryville Under Fire: The Aftermath of Kentucky’s Largest Civil War Battle," "The Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky," and "Maney’s Confederate Brigade at the Battle of Perryville." He is the former executive director of the Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association and has written for a wide variety of magazines and journals. His op-ed pieces about Kentucky history regularly appear in newspapers across the Commonwealth.
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