The organized gangs of robbers and killers who roamed the Midwest and Southwest from the 1860's to the 1930's went to the same schol and were succored by each others notoriety. The author makes a case for "the contagious nature of crime". William Quantrill and his guerrillas established a crimi...
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The failure of President Harry Truman's efforts to effect a much needed change in argricultuural policy after WWII has remained at the heart of the farm policy debate for several decades.
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This program was developed by KTWU-TV the local PBS station in Topeka, Kansas. Narrated by Bill Kurtis with readings by Walter Cronkite, Gwen Ifill, Jim Lehrer and Bill Moyers this program tells the story, events, and circumstances of this momentous decision. Produced in 2004 in commemoration o...
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This new release is a gripping account of events and people covering the period in Kansas from 1854 to 1879 and the Exoduster migration. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the ideological orgins of the Civil War.
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Published by the Western National Parks Association this book takes the reader on the journey that led to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that banned segregation in public schools. The Monroe School building in Topeka Kansas opens as a National Historic Site in May 2004.
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A vivid and comprehensive account of the historical, legal, and political dramas surrounding one of the most important Supreme Court cases of the 20th century. This new study offers an insightful and original overview designed expressly for students and general readers.
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Shawnee County Historical Society Bulletin No. 83
By Shawnee County Historical Society
December 2008
Douglass W. Wallace, Author
Max D. Movsovitz, Editor
Jeanne C. Mithen, Assistant Editor
Paper, 152 Pages, Photos, Illustrations
A remarkably poignant and evocative account that resurrects a vanished world of grasshopper plagues, prairie fires, poor farms, and one-room county schools, where even the youngest children toiled on their family's behalf.
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