Past and Present
Three Wichita State history professors, Drs. Robin Henry, Robert Weems, and Jay Price, will talk about Wichita history, parallels between current events and historical happenings, and how historical events got us to where we are today.
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On this week's Past and Present, Dr. Robert Weems says a recent order from Donald Trump undoes a long federal tradition of supporting nonwhite entrepreneurship. -
On today's Past and Present, Dr. Robin Henry talks about the first immigration exclusion policy. -
Today on Past and Present, Jay Price reflects on how research and scholarship can be easy to find, until it's gone. -
On today's Past and Present, Dr. Robin Henry looks at Women's History Month. -
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. -
In this episode of Past and Present, Dr. Robert E. Weems, Jr. suggests that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 demonstrates that Donald Trump’s contemporary call for a variety of tariffs will end disastrously for the United States. -
The beating and blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard was a turning point in the fight for civil rights. Dr. Robin Henry tells us more on Past and Present. -
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. -
The looming mass deportation of undocumented Hispanics is not the first time in American history when perceived undesirables were relocated. Dr. Robert E. Weems, Jr. tells us more on Past and Present. -
Dr. Robin Henry looks at the similarities between "now" and The Guilded Age on this edition of Past and Present.
