The Battle of Westport: Missouri's Great Confederate Raid (Civil War Sesquicentennial)
Paul Kirkman is an author, historian and speaker who lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife, Shawn, and daughter, Shannon. Paul has his BA in history from Columbia College and has worked as an archival assistant in the Archives of the Kansas City Department of Parks, Recreation & Boulevards and as a speaker for the State Historical Society of Missouri Speakers' Bureau. Paul coauthoredLockdown: Outlaws, Lawmen & Frontier Justice in Jackson County, Missouriwith archivist David W. Jackson of the Jackson County, Missouri Historical Society.