This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
And just in time comes historian Adam Arenson’s new book “The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War.”
While Arenson is a professor at the University of Texas El Paso, he spent a year in St. Louis doing research for his book.
St. Louis Public Radio’s Maria Altman asked him why he chose to focus on St. Louis.
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