Jay Price
Volunteer History commentatorJay M. Price is chair of the department of history at Wichita State University, where he also directs the public history program.
His works include Temples for a Modern God: Religious Architecture in Postwar America, Gateways to the Southwest: The Story of Arizona State Parks, Wichita, 1860-1930, and El Dorado!: Legacy of an Oil Boom. He has co-authored Wichita's Legacy of Flight, Cherokee Strip Land Rush, Wichita’s Lebanese Heritage, and Kansas: In the Heart of Tornado Alley.
He has served on the boards of the Kansas Humanities Council and the Kansas State Historic Sites Board of Review. He is currently on the board of the Wichita Sedgwick County Historical Museum and the University Press of Kansas.
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On Past and Present, Jay Price explores how popular culture has imagined the future—and what lessons those movies and television shows might be teaching us. -
Winter’s cold has brought a renewed conversation about housing and those who are finding themselves on the streets in brutal temperatures. Jay Price discusses how the types of housing we have, or don’t have, are part of the issue. -
As we look to the new year, we are prone to look to history for lessons on how to go forward. On Past and Present, Dr. Jay Price warns us that is not so easy. -
As apples, pumpkins and other produce are turned into fall desserts, Jay Price reflects on how Kansas eating habits are part of our local story. -
On Past and Present, Jay Price reflects about how political differences are more than just issues or elected figures, but the very tone of their expressions. -
In this edition of Past and Present, Jay Price reminds us that tense and contentious issues have been with us before. -
In this edition of Past and Present, Jay Price shows how Pride Month intersects with a new LBGTQ research project. -
A recent project to translate a graphic novel from English to Spanish revealed the challenges of bridging languages. Dr. Jay Price was part of that project and has more. -
After visiting Washington this week, Japan's prime minister traveled to North Carolina, a key state for Japanese investments. One focus: a new factory to make batteries for electric vehicles.
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The year 2026 seems like a long way away, but it's not too soon to start preparing for the nation's 250th birthday. Dr. Jay Price tells us why in this edition of Past and Present.
