February is Black History Month, and there are numerous ways to recognize the month throughout Kansas and in the state’s largest city, Wichita. The African American experience in Wichita, the Heart of the Country, is rich and worth exploring. People in the Heart of the Country are nice and…
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A small two-story wooden building, a grassy meadow, a quiet park, a wooded valley between hills; these spots today are relatively unassuming and even banal at first appearance, but there was a time when these places in rural Kansas were the center of national attention. I visited several major sites…
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Kansas’ role in the fight for freedom is well established. The Bleeding Kansas moniker accurately describes the era in the state’s history where pro-slavery and abolitionist activists clashed. This time in the state was a predictor of the Civil War, showing that the decision to abolish slavery…
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