The Original Homes on the Range
Photo courtesy of the Kansas Historical Society Indigenous people’s oral histories and archeological research provide insight into the first Kansas homes Long before Euro-American settlers built…
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Tag: History
Being Native. Being Kansan.
The following sections are from a longer feature "Being Native. Being Kansan." first published in 2016 Five native nations connected to Kansas By Suzanne Heck Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri The…
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A Fort along the Santa Fe Trail
A new permanent exhibition highlights the role and the legacy of a military outpost on the Santa Fe Trail Fort Larned National Historic Site sits amid fields and along a meandering line of trees…
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Two Hundred Years of the Santa Fe Trail
Illustrations by Doug Holdread, Courtesy Santa Fe Trail Assoc. A vital land trail receives recognition and a reappraisal of its role in American history and in shaping the future of Kansas Along…
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Allen House
Recognized as one of America’s most gifted 20th-century architects, Frank Lloyd Wright built more than 500 homes, museums, places of worship and office buildings, eight of them included on UNESCO’s…
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Holiday Trees on Display
(Updated: November 2, 2021, original feature from 2019.) Believed to be the Midwest’s largest indoor annual Christmas tree display, the collection of 170 unusual and historic holiday trees returns to…
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A Roll Call of Treasures
(Updated in November 2021, first published in 2019) Since 1894, more than 8,000 officers from 165 countries have attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth…
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Civil War Commemorations
Kansas marks 160 years since the beginning of the deadly conflict One hundred and sixty years ago, the war between Northern and Southern states erupted and overshadowed what was already the…
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Editor's Note: In Search of Elizabeth Polly
“Have you heard the story about...,” is usually how it all begins. A remarkable (often unbelievable) tale that’s passed down through the generations, told around the glow of a crackling campfire to…
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Follow the Signs
Traveler viewing the Cimarron National Grassland from Point of Rocks In 1863, a 62-year-old Italian immigrant named Giovanni de Agostini (or João Maria D’Agostini), also known as Father Francesco…
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