Midwest

Experience the top 23 Kansas civil rights sites

The Brown v. Board National Historic Site is in the former Monroe Elementary. I visited some of these sites as…

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15 best things to do in historic Fort Scott, Kansas

Fort Scott, Kansas, honors heroes. I am the Fort Scott National Historic Site and want to tell you our city's…

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Embrace Concordia, the Orphan Train Town

Embrace Concordia, the Orphan Train Town Pigtailed and barefoot, Miriam (Roering) Zitur is reading a book in Concordia's Broadway Plaza.…

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The 10 best things to do in alluring Great Bend

The 10 best things to do in alluring Great Bend America's largest inland marsh, Cheyenne Bottoms entices vast flocks of…

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First Patented Helicopter: A Shattered Dream

America's First Patented Helicopter was a shattered dream William J. Purvis and Charles A. Wilson built America's First Patented Helicopter…

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Abraham Lincoln visits Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Follow Abraham Lincoln's footsteps on the Kansas Lincoln Trail “If I went West, I think I would go to Kansas…

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Home on the Range: Kansas’s state song

The story of "Home on the Range" In 1873, Dr. Brewster Higley VI sat outside his tiny cabin near Athol…

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Goodland library opens women’s voting rights

Goodland shows the way for women's voting rights The fight for women’s voting rights in Kansas was a slow process.…

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The second Kansas woman to run for Congress

Attacking the glass ceiling: The second Kansas woman to run for Congress In 1913, Eva Morley Murphy of Goodland was…

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Herstory: 10 famous Kansas women

Take note of 10 famous Kansas women Well-behaved women rarely make history. -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Amelia Earhart is the…

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