Author, "Kansas Music: Stories of A Rich Tradition"

Debra Goodrich Bisel is cohost of Around Kansas, a weekly TV show and is the resident historian at Historic Topeka Cemetery. She grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. She made various forays into publishing magazines, including the Kansas Journal of Military History. She has been a guest on C-SPAN, numerous radio talk shows, and has appeared in many documentaries on various history topics. Currently, she appears on The Gunslingers on the American Heroes Channel. She serves on the selection committee for the Kansas Hall of Fame at the Great Overland Station and is past president of the Shawnee County (KS) Historical Society and is a president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Kansas.

Deb is a sought-after public speaker and is a member of the EME Speakers Bureau. Contact her at debbisel@yahoo.com.

Armchair General Magazine featured her article on the 150th anniversary of Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, in April 2014. She is writing an article to be published in 2015 on Sumner's Fight with the Cheyenne on the Solomon River, 1857.