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Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains Can't wait for Thanksgiving? Read about President Roosevelt's efforts to move the holiday up in the calendar in 1939, 1940, and 1941 here...and happy belated Franksday to all!
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Kansans have been celebrating Thanksgiving since before statehood. Perhaps the first one was observed in 1845 at Shawnee Methodist Mission. Eleven years later the governor of Kansas Territory issued the first official Thanksgiving proclamations. ...
Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains Join authors Fred Holmes, Grace Holmes, Nancy Hulston, and Anthony Kovac for a panel discussion of their article which appeared in the Autumn issue of Kansas History, "'A Brave and Gallant Company': A Kansas City Hospital in France during the First World War," tonight at 6:00 p.m. at the National Archives in Kansas Cit...y, 400 West Pershing Road. They will discuss their research on Base Hospital No. 28, which operated in Limoges, France, from July 1918 until January 1919, and was staffed by Kansas City doctors and nurses.
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Congratulations Steven Trout, the winner of this year's Edgar Langsdorf Award for Excellence for his article "The Western Front Comes to Kansas: John Steuart Curry's The Return of Private Davis from the Argonne," published in the Autumn 2008 issue of Kansas History. The Langsdorf Award is given each year to the author ...of the article judged to be most superior considering construction, evidence of research, and contribtion to the advancement of knowledge. For more on Professor Trout's article--which examines the multiple influences on Curry as he painted the scene of the stateside reburial in Winchester, Kansas, of a high-school friend who had been killed on his very first night of frontline duty in WWI--see http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/200
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We received word from the statehouse this morning that former Governor William H. "Bill" Avery, a proud native son of Kansas and long-time supporter of the Kansas Historical Society, died last night, November 4, 2009. Avery was born in Wakefield on August 11, 1911, and for most of his life made the family's Clay County... stock farm his home. He served five terms in the U.S. Congress, 1955-1965, and one term as governor of Kansas, 1965-1967. For a good deal more on the life and political career of Governor Avery, see http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/200
Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains This print, which captures the terror of an oncoming dust storm, was made by Logan C. Herschel, a Kansas artist and member of the Prairie Print Makers. This Kansas-based group formed in the midst of the Great Depression to "futher the interests of both artists and laymen in printmaking and collecting." To these ends th...e group's active artist members produced prints that were considered for selection as an annual gift print, which was presented to the group's associate member for yearly dues of $5. To read more about Herschel and the Prairie Print Makers and to view other prints made by this group of artists, see the inside front covers of this year's issues of Kansas History.
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Some admirers have called Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area--the largest wetland in the central plains of North America, encompassing over 40,000 acres--the "Jewel of the Prairie." In the current issue of Kansas History, historian Douglas S. Harvey describes early efforts to manage the Bottoms, which sometimes caused quit...e unexpected changes to its ecosystem. Read more at http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/200
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Two of the most ambitious efforts in the movement to develop cross-country roadways in the early twentieth century began in Kansas. John C. Nicholson of Newton was a tireless roads booster who helped situate his city at the crossroads of the New Santa Fe Trail, which ran from Hutchinson west to Garden City and later be...came US Hwy 50, and the Meridian Road, which eventually stretched from Canada to Mexico and became US Hwy 81. To read more see the Autumn issue of Kansas History, out now: http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/new
Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains Base Hospital No. 28, established at Limoges, Frances, in the summer of 1918, was staffed by a "brave and gallant" company of Kansas City area doctors and nurses. The 2,900 bed hospital was state-of-the-art for its time and admitted 9,954 patients during its six months of operation. Read more and see photographs taken ...at Base Hospital No. 28 during the war in the Autumn 2009 issue of Kansas History, out now.
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Are you "sound on the goose"? Find out in the forthcoming issue of Kansas History, in which authors Nicole Etcheson and Emmett Redd explore the origins of this curious phrase that was used in the years immediately following the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. To read more see http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/for
Katie Armitage I enjoyed the review of Craig Miner's book "Seeding the Civil War" in the Summer 2009 issue. Katie Armitage
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Join historian and Kansas History author William Foley on Thursday, September 24, at the National Archives in Kansas City for a presentation on his research and recent article in the journal, "Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: The United States v. See See Sah Mah and Escotah." Foley's article explores the controversial cas...e of See See Sah Mah and Escotah, two Native Americans that were wrongly convicted of murdering trader Norris Colburn in 1847 along the Santa Fe Trail. Adding to the case's significance, U.S. President Milliard Fillmore commuted See See Sah Mah's sentence.
For more on this pardon, which was recently featured on an episode of PBS's History Detectives, see http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/200
A reception begins at 6:00 pm, and the lecture starts at 6:30 pm. The National Archives in Kansas City are at 400 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108. To RSVP please call 816-268-8010 or email kansascity.educate@nara.gov.
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Congratulations Charlotte Hinger, whose Kansas History article, "'The Colored People Hold the Key': Abram Thompson Hall Jr.'s Campaign to Organize Graham County," won the first place Coke Wood Award from Westerners International for the best published monograph or article dealing with Western American history based on ...individual research, personal knowledge, or family records. Ms. Hinger's award-winning piece from our Spring 2008 issue can be read online at http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/200
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This week in Kansas History: Colonel Charles Rainsford Jennison penned this broadside on August 24, 1861, recruiting volunteers for the First Kansas Cavalry. "Jennison's Jayhawkers" became infamous for their guerrilla tactics in Missouri, and the motivations behind and effectiveness of their methods are still debated t...oday. See letters from a member of Jennison's Jayhawkers in the Spring 1997 issue of Kansas History, http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/199
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Although we won't have the indepth information found here, additional stories of Kansas history is found on the Wetlands & Wildlife National Scenic Byway page. We've just added you as a favorite page! This week, the byway is examing WPA projects along the byway. Come share with us at http://www.facebook.com/home.php...#/pages/Wetlands-Wildlife-National-Sceni
When you think of Kansas, what pops into your mind? Prairie? Wheat? Dorothy? The Wetlands & Wildlife National Scenic Byway will forever reshape your image of this part of the “Sunflower State.” This 77-mile Byway connects two of the world’s most significant natural wetlands—Cheyenne Bottoms and the Quivira National Wi...ldlife Refuge. More than 60,000 acres of wetlands host millions of migrating birds each year, including waterfowl, shorebirds, even whooping cranes. No wonder this region has been named one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas. But the Byway offers far more than beautiful wetlands and birds. Along your trek, you’ll see native stone buildings, underground tunnels, metal street art, WPA art and bridges, an operating flour mill, a stretch of the Santa Fe Trail, a raptor center, and more. So grab a Byway map, slip in the audioguide, and discover our extraordinary corner of the planet.
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