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| Title | Description | Subject (Local) | Type | Date |
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| "A Brave and Gallant Company," A Kansas City Hospital in France During the First World War | Article describes the U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 28 located in Limoges, France, from July 1918 until May 1919. Many of the hospital personnel were associated with the University of Kansas School of Medicine and were considered "competent and cabable far beyond what" was "typically imagined of First World War surgical and medical practitioners." | Military hospitals, War, University of Kansas School of Medicine | Magazine Article | 2009 |
| "A Damned Tight Place": General Jeff Thompson Confronts the Federals at Fredericktown, Missouri | Article describes and analyzes the Battle of Fredericktown, fought October 21, 1861. While a relatively small battle, "devoid of long-term strategic importance," it was the only significant battle in southeastern Missouri during the first year of the Civil War. It ended the campaign of Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson and foreshadowed the Confederacy's eventual loss of the State. Includes information on Colonels Leonrad F. Ross, William P. Carlin, and Joseph Plummmer with portraits. | Campaigns & battles, Civil War, Thompson, Meriwether J. (Swamp Fox) | Magazine Article | 2009-04 |
| "A Pretty Weedy Flower" | This article traces William Allen White's political beliefs and actions. From his newspaper office in Emporia, White supported liberal causes, but also championed conservative issues he believed would safeguard and promote rural midwestern values. Along with the impact of White's "What's the Matter with Kansas?" editorial, the article discusses his relationship with various politicians, his efforts against the Ku Klux Klan, his run for govenor in 1924, his stance on prohibition, and his role in the 1928 presidential campaign for Herbert Hoover. | White, William Allen, Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas, Ku Klux Klan, Allen, Henry J., Hoover, Herbert, Politicians, Politics | Magazine Article | 2012 |
| "Black Capitalism" as Negro Hope | Biographical article about Booker T. Washington and his statements from around the turn of the 20th century about "black capitalism" being re-popularized by the Richard Nixon administration in the late 1960s. The article mentions that Booker Washington "wrote in the Kansas City Journal around 1900" on this subject, promoting the initiation of self-started businesses by blacks rather than depending on "handouts" or government welfare. | Racism, Race relations, Capitalism, Washington, Booker T., African Americans | Newspaper Article | 1968-04-30 |
| "Blind" Boone Plays On in Columbia - Restoring the Home of a Ragtime Great | Pictures and article about the work to restore the home of John Willliams "Blind" Boone, a great pioneer of American ragtime music. The home is at 10 North Fourth Street in downtown Columbia, Missouri, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Missouri artist Harry Weber will create a life-size bronze sculpture of Boone to be completed after the home is fully restored and furnished. Boone's custom-made piano by the Chickering Company in 1891 has been fully restored and acquired by the Boone County Historical Society. | Conservation & restoration, Historic buildings, Pianists, Boone, John W. (Blind), Columbia, Missouri | Magazine Article | 2009-08 |
| "Business Builds Jobs" | Interview with Kansas City Mayor Sly James focusing on "business retention, an incentives 'Border War' with Kansas and other pressing matters of interest to area businesspeople." | Interviews, Mayors, James, Sly | Newspaper Article | 2011-06-10 |
| "Compostela" | Color picture of Rock Cottage Glassworks artist Dierk Van Keppel's "Compostela" at the Faultless Starch Bon Ami Headquarters building. "The 71-foot-tall mobile contains 138 glass globes of varying diameters shaped by 100-year-old molds salvaged from a defunct lamp factory." | Art, Glassworking, Van Keppel, Dierk, Faultless Starch Company | Magazine Article | 2011-04 |
| "Demand Nothing But What Is Strictly Right And Submit to Nothing That Is Wrong": Governor Lilburn Boggs, Gover Robert Lucas, and the Honey War of 1839 | Article explores and analyzes the "Honey War" of 1830, focusing particularly on the roles and personalities of Governor Boggs of Missouri and Governor Lucas of Iowa. The "war," which involved the disputed boundary between the State of Missouri and Iowa Territory, was named after an incident in which a Missourian cut down three bee trees in the disputed territory. | Boundaries, Honey War, Boggs, Lilburn W., Lucas, Robert, Missouri--History | Magazine Article | 2008-10 |
| "Doing What Needed to Get Done, When It Needed to Get Done" | Article excerpted from two interviews with Bill Graves, the 43rd governor of Kansas, serving from 1995 to 2003. The article discusses Graves' early life in Salina, working for his family's trucking company, and political campaigns and career. The majority of the article focuses on issues Graves faced as governor, including highway projects, hospital funding, concealed carry, budget cuts, and changes within the Republican Party. | Politics & government, Politicians, Graves, Bill, Governors | Magazine Article | 2013 |
| "Far More than a Romantic Adventure": The American Civil War in Harry Truman's History and Memory | Article describes President Truman's profound interest in and knowledge of the Civil War and the importance he attached to it. Truman's antecedents had strong roots in slave states and in Platte and Jackson County. Independence was still "very much involved" in the war when he was growing up. He also read extensively about the war. Truman admired Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant but despised George B. McClellan. He saw in Lincoln's problems with his generals a model for his own disagreements with General Douglas McArthur, whom he considered a "prima donna, brass hat" general. | Presidents, Generals, Truman, Harry S., Civil War | Magazine Article | 2009-10 |
| "First Lady of Kansas City" Dies | Obituary of Adele Coryell Hall, philanthropist and wife of Hallmark Cards chairman Donald Joyce Hall. Adele Hall was born on October 7, 1931 in Lincoln, Nebraska, and moved to Kansas City after her marriage in 1953. Among her many accomplishments, she served on the boards of the Heart of America United Way and Children's Mercy Hospital, devoted time to supporting causes with an emphasis on children's health and education, and co-led the fundraising effort for the Bloch Building and renovation of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Henry Bloch is quoted as saying, "If there ever was a first lady of Kansas City, it was Adele." Adele Hall died on January 26, 2013 at her home in Hawaii at the age of 81. | Hall, Adele, Hall, Donald J., Hall Family, Children's Mercy Hospital, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building, Bloch, Henry W. | Newspaper Article | 2013-01-29 |
| "Hold the Line": The Defense of Jim Crow in Lawrence, Kansas, 1945-1961 | Between 1945 and 1961, a number of conservative whites resisted the Civil Rights Movement taking place in Lawrence, Kansas. The article draws on newspaper accounts and univeristy documents to illustrate the arguments and tactics employed during this resistance. | Civil rights, Discrimination, Lawrence, Kansas | Magazine Article | 2010 |
| "I Was a Prinsoner of War" | Reprint of a portion of Samuel J. Reader's autobiography. A free-state partisan, Reader witnessed and participated in the Bleeding Kansas conflict and later served in the Second Kansas State Militia during Confederate General Stirling Price's 1864 invasion of Missouri and Kansas. He was taken prisoner during the Battle of the Big Blue and spent several days with the Confederate forces before he managed to escape. The reprinted portion here describes Reeder's capitivity, as he was forced to march south from Jackson County, Missouri to Fort Scott, Kansas. | Civil War, Battle of Big Blue, Battle of Westport, Price, Sterling, Price's Missouri Expedition (1864), Reader, Samuel J. | Magazine Article | 2014 |
| "If the Union Wins, We Won't Have Anything Left": The Rise and Fall of the Southern Cherokees of Kansas | Maps, photos, and article about the Cherokees of Kansas and their settlement of the Cherokee Neutral Lands and Chetopa, Kansas, area. Includes a table "Heads of Cherokee Families Identified as Living on Tribal Lands in Kansas" (p. 162) and another table "Kansas Residents Who Enlisted in Confederate Cherokee Military Service" (p. 170). | Indian reservations, Indigenous peoples, Treaties, Native Americans, Cherokee Indians, Kansas, Chetopa, Kansas, Osage Indians | Magazine Article | 2007 |
| "In Behalf of Freedom:" Charles and Sara Robinson of Kansas | Short biographical article about Charles and Sara Robinson, Kansas' first governor and first lady. Robinson, an advocate of the free-state cause, established the town of Lawrence, Kansas, in 1854. The following year he was elected governor of Kansas. | Abolitionists, Governors, Robinson, Charles L., Robinson, Sara T. D., Lawrence, Kansas | Magazine Article | 2010 |
| "Like a Brilliant Thread" | Article recounts the December 1921 coal strike in southeast Kansas involving the "Amazon Army"- the wives, mothers, sisters, and friends of the striking mine workers. They led a series of marches to prevent any escalation of violence, but also to keep strikebreakers from reopening closed Kansas mines. | Coal miners, Labor unions, Spouses, Strikes, Women, Kansas | Magazine Article | 2011 |
| "Nobody Out Here Knows Anything About Wimin's Rights" | Title contines "Clarina Howard Nichols, Woman's Rights, and Abolitionism in Kansas Territory." Article discusses Clarina Howard Nichols, one of the most notable nineteenth-century women's rights activisits and her activity with the Lawrence, Kansas, Herald of Freedom. Using a pseudonym of Deborah Van Winkle, Nichols wanted to "alert antislavery men that they were neglecting their female partners in the rush to defend their homes and liberties against proslavery forces." | Women's rights, Nichols, Clarina Irene Howard, Herald of Freedom, Lawrence, Kansas | Magazine Article | 2010 |
| "Out of the Ashes" | Article on the aftermath of Quantrill's Raid on the town of Lawrence, Kansas and its residents. Following the August 21, 1863 attack in which almost 200 men and boys were killed, surviors of the raid struggled to put their homes, businesses, and lives back together. The author details rebuilding efforts and the later campaign for raid claims through a number of individuals, focusing particularly on dry goods store owner Fred W. Read. The Kansas legislature finally approved a bill for raid claims in 1887, but at only a fraction of their original amounts. | Lawrence Massacre, Lawrence, Kansas, Read, Fred W., Quantrill, William C., Border Warfare, Civil War | Magazine Article | 2014 |
| "Pages" Worth Turning | Review of the exhibition "Pages: Book as Medium, Catalyst, Venue" at Paragraph Gallery, 23 E. 12th Street. | Art exhibitions, Books, Paragraph Gallery, Reviews | Newspaper Article | 2010-12-09 |
| "Passive House" Is Called to Active Duty | A house located at 32 S. 16th Street in Kansas City, Kansas, is the first in Kansas to earn "Passive House" certification. To be deemed passive, the structure must use 90 percent less energy than a typical home. Graduate architecture students from the University of Kansas program, Studio 804, built the home and was supervised by KU professor Dan Rockhill. The home is on the market and is listed at $159,000. | Architecture, Dwellings, Residences | Newspaper Article | 2010-12-31 |