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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Only three American presidents have suffered the indignity of being impeached: Andrew Johnson in 1867; Bill Clinton in 1998; and now Donald Trump.One…
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A map of South America shows an island at the bottom of the continent. The La Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego faces the rough passage around the horn and…
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Fifty-one years ago this week, Century II opened its doors, ahead of celebrating Wichita’s centennial and moving the city into its second century the…
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On Christmas Eve, 1913, striking families in Calumet, Michigan, gathered at the Italian Diner Hall for a party sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the…
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In 2007, Victor Gold, a long-time G.O.P. insider, wrote a widely discussed book entitled Invasion of the Party Snatchers. Cleverly using the 1956 film…
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This commentary originally aired on November 28, 2017. On November 27th and 28th 1917, the federal government succumbed to public outcry and released the…
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On Nov. 10, 1919, the U.S. Supreme Court decided its second First Amendment case in two weeks.In Abrams v. U.S., the federal government asked the court to…
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A few weeks ago, I was at the Kansas Preservation Conference in Dodge City and a tour took us to see where the Santa Fe Trail ruts ran down to the…
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This year represents the 400-year anniversary of the first enslaved Africans being brought to America. The subsequent history of Africans in America is…
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In August, the United States observed the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved people kidnapped from West Africa and transported to the…