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A Love Story: Football, the NFL, the Chiefs and Kansas City

By | April 27, 2023 | 0
Chiefs flag waves in Arrowhead Stadium.

The history of football in Kansas City stretches back to the late 1800s, long before Lamar Hunt brought the Chiefs to town, let alone the NFL Draft.

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Disability Rights History: A Self-Guided Tour

By | April 19, 2023 | 0
A group of students at the University of Kansas demonstrate for civil rights in 1965. Image courtesy of Dole Archives at the University of Kansas.

Here’s a self-guided tour to help put disability rights and law history into context.

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New Amelia Earhart Museum Gleams with the Energy, Innovation and Bravery of its Subject

By | April 14, 2023 | 0
The centerpiece of the new Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison is the plane Muriel, named for Earhart’s younger sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey. The plane is the one remaining Lockheed Electra 10-E, which Earhart piloted on her final voyage.

The sparkling new hangar-museum at Atchison’s Amelia Earhart Memorial Airport does more than just pay tribute to its namesake’s life and career.

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Truman Library Makes Plans to Host Hiroshima Trees

By | April 4, 2023 | 0
Truman Library visitors to the exhibit can examine Katy McCormick’s photographs displayed alongside witness testimonials of the bombings.

Descendants of trees that survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb that helped end World War II are expected to be planted at the Truman Library sometime in 2024.

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White Castle Didn’t Just Invent Sliders. The Kansas Chain Created a Playbook for American Fast Food

By | March 24, 2023 | 0
White Castle founders Walt Anderson and Billy Ingram stand next to two automobiles outside of White Castle number 10, located at 318 West Douglas Avenue in Wichita, Kansas. The sign on the building reads: "White Castle System, Inc. No. 10 - Hamburger - Buy 'em by the sack 5¢ Anderson and Ingram." Two employees can be seen posing in the window, which advertises "Good coffee 5¢ Cold drinks."

White Castle began in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, where its ingenious small hamburgers kicked off a national craze and inspired imitators of all shapes and sizes.

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