A Kansas Memory: The Kansas Historical Society Library and Archives Podcast

Kansas governor Mike Hayden held office from January 12, 1987 - January 14, 1991. Hayden grew up in Atwood in northwest Kansas and relied heavily on support from agriculture and the rural areas o...

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This features excerpts from the second interview with Kansas Governor John Carlin, who held office from January 8, 1979 to January 12, 1987. In 1978, in a surprise upset, he defeated the Republic...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/069_john_carlin_interview.htm

Kansas Governor John Carlin held office from January 8, 1979 to January 12, 1987. He was elected to the Kansas legislature in 1970 and was Minority Leader of the House from 1975-1977; then Speake...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/068_john_carlin_interview.htm

William Avery would have never become a politician if not for a series of disastrous floods in Kansas in the mid 20th century. He was the third generation of Averys farming near Wakefield, in Cla...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/067_william_avery_interview.htm

John Anderson Jr. was governor of Kansas from January 9, 1961 to January 11, 1965. Dr. Bob Beatty, professor of political science at Washburn University, conducted this interview as part of the K...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/066_john_anderson_interview.htm

Robert Lee Carter was hired by Thurgood Marshall after WWII to work as an assistant counsel for the NAACP. He worked on a number of civil rights cases and represented the plaintiffs in the Brown ...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/065_robert_carter_interview.htm

This podcast features excerpts from the letters written home by young Clark Bruster of Waverly, New York during the fall of 1917 while he was training with U. S. Artillery Battery A at Fort Riley...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/064_clark_bruster_letters.htm

Clark Bruster's great-grandfather was an early settler of Waverly, N. Y., a village on the New York/Pennsylvania border. Harvey and Cora Bruster raised Clark and his brothers there in the early 1...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/063_clark_bruster_letters.htm

Susan Bixby Dimond and her husband Will made the long journey from her family home in Mayville, New York, to Osborne County, Kansas, in February 1872 to begin a promising new life in the West. Su...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/062_susan_dimond_journal.htm

John William Gardiner was the third of nine children in the large Gardiner family. His parents, William and Susan, were farmers who moved from Missouri to Jefferson County, Kansas Territory, in M...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/061_john_gardiner_diary.htm

Before he became the "Wild Bill" of legend, James Butler Hickok was one of hundreds of immigrants who streamed into Territorial Kansas hoping to acquire a piece of the Indian reservation lands th...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/060_james_hickok_letter.htm

Robert Fonzo Layher enlisted in the U. S. Navy in 1939 and was assigned to the North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego, when he resigned his commission to join the American Volunteer Group. T...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/059_robert_layher_interview.htm

Arthur Jones served in WWII with the 219th Field Artillery, 35th Infantry Division of the Third Army. They landed in France shortly after Independence Day, 1944. Arthur's duty was to drive a Jeep...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/058_arthur_jones_interview.htm

Raymond Brown grew up on a farm in Olpe, Kansas, during the 1920's and 30's. He was twenty-six when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and in 1942 he joined the newly activated 95th Infantry Divi...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/057_raymond_brown_interview.htm

Mabel Holmes, a longtime Topeka resident, kept a daily diary from January 1, 1935-December 31, 1939. During this time, storms resulting from the severe drought conditions blanketed the state in d...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/056_mabel_holmes_diary.htm

Mabel Holmes, a longtime Topeka resident, kept a daily diary from January 1, 1935-December 31, 1939. During this time, storms resulting from the severe drought conditions blanketed the state in d...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/055_mabel_holmes_diary.htm

In 1868, raids by hostile Indian bands on the western frontier increased as the white population of Kansas swelled after the Civil War and railroads were built father west. George Armstrong Custe...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/054_george_jenness_diary.htm

In 1868, raids by hostile Indian bands on the western frontier increased as the white population of Kansas swelled after the Civil War and railroads were built father west. That winter the U. S. ...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/053_george_jenness_diary.htm

Ned Beck continued writing in his diary throughout the summer of 1880, so we have his first-hand account of Holton, Kansas' 4th of July festivities. Holton planned to hold a community picnic on J...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/052_ned_becks_july_fourth.htm

Another school year is coming to a close in Holton, Kansas. Final exams; class picnics; summer baseball teams forming--it could be May 2009--but 11 year old Ned Beck wrote this diary in 1880. Thi...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/051_ned_beck_diary.htm

In the late 19th century, American tax laws favored Northeastern industrialists, who amassed enormous fortunes, while farmers in rural America found it harder and harder to make a living. The Far...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/050_william_peffer_scrapbook.htm

Samuel Reader joined the Kansas State Militia in Shawnee County when the war broke out between the North and South, but they didn't see action until "Price's Raid" in the late fall of 1864. Samue...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/049_samuel_readers_autobiography.htm

Samuel began keeping a daily record of his life at the age of thirteen and continued faithfully until he died in 1914 at the age of 78. In 1855, when he was just 19, he moved from Illinois to Kan...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/048_samuel_readers_diary.htm

Abraham Lincoln visited Kansas only once, in December 1859. This podcast features excerpts from Lincoln's speech as published in the Leavenworth newspaper and observations about the future presid...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/047_lincoln_in_kansas.htm

"The new Republican Party, which opposed the expansion of slavery, nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. Lincoln took office only a month after Kansas was admitted to the Union. Excerp...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/046_lincoln_and_the_1860_election.htm

"In early December of 1944, Second Lieutenant Martin Jones of the 106th Division of the Army moved through Belgium to the German border. Jones and his division were scattered through the Ardennes...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/045_battle_of_the_buldge.htm

Participants in the Kansas Veterans of WW II Oral History Project, sponsored by the Kansas State Legislature, remember their service in the European and Pacific Theaters during the Second World W...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/044_kansas_veterans_remember.htm

In the spring of 1915, fifteen year old Harry Fine graduated from the Princeton Preparatory School in Princeton, New Jersey. That fall, he headed west to spend a year as a working cowboy in Maple...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/043_harry_fine.htm

This podcast features two stories recorded by visitors to the Forces of Nature exhibit, currently on display at the Kansas Museum of History through January 9th, 2009. In the first segment, farme...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/042_stormy_weather_floods.htm

The death penalty has always been controversial in Kansas. Executions were first halted in 1872, after the legislature passed a law requiring the governor to sign off on all execution orders. Cap...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/041_capital_punishment.htm

Since long before Euro-American settlement, strong winds have been a constant feature of the central plains region and the area now known as Kansas. The name Kansas was borrowed from the Kanza In...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/040_tornadoes.htm

Martha Farnsworth was a prolific diary writer, recording her daily experiences from 1882 through 1922 with only minor gaps. This podcast features entries from Martha's diary that describe her sec...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/039_farnsworth_married_life.htm

Martha Farnsworth was a prolific diary writer, recording her daily experiences from 1882 through 1922 with only minor gaps. This podcast features entries from Martha's diary that describe her cou...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/038_martha_married_1.htm

Martha Farnsworth was a prolific diary writer, recording her daily experiences from 1882 through 1922 with only minor gaps. Martha , with some assistance from her second husband Fred taught a Sun...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/037_over_there.htm

In the mid 1870s, settlers trying to establish homes and farms in Kansas had to deal with grasshopper invasions that would destroy crops. This pod cast will feature excerpts from a reminiscence t...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/036_grasshoppers.htm

After the treaty of 1825, the Shawnee Indians were removed from Ohio to the Indian Territory west of Missouri. In response, three Christian missions were built in the vicinity of the Westport Lan...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/035_missions.htm

Children's lives have changed dramatically in America in the last hundred years. Today we take it for granted that children will attend public school and not work full-time, but in the early 1900...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/034_child_labor.htm

In 1872, Henry Raymond arrived in Dodge City, Kansas, to join his brother Theodore and friends to hunt buffalo to make money. The friends happened to be the Masterson brothers--Bat, Jim, and Ed--...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/033_raymond_henry.htm

In January 1886 a fierce blizzard struck south central Kansas. Over 200 people were stranded in Kinsley, Kanasas, population 600+. Snowbound for almost a week, the passengers in cooperation with ...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/032_b_b_blizzard.htm

From 1991 to 1996 the Kansas Historical Society participated in a grant project that funded eighty oral interviews with people involved in or affected by U.S. school desegregation cases that culm...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/031_jackson_christina.htm

From 1991 to 1996 the Kansas Historical Society participated in a grant project that funded eighty oral interviews with people involved in or affected by U.S. school desegregation cases that culm...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/030_brown_v_board.htm

From 1991 to 1996 the Kansas Historical Society participated in a grant project that funded eighty oral interviews with people involved in or affected by U.S. school desegregation cases that culm...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/029_brown_v_board.htm

By the late 1800's the wild buffalo was nearly extinct. Listen to the stories of Harriet Bidwell, who witnessed a buffalo hunt while traveling on the Santa Fe Trail; and Henry Raymond, who hunted...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/028_buffalo_hunts.htm

No collection of state records can create as varied a snapshot of an era as the correspondence the governor receives. Constituents write about any current topic that they believe needs the govern...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/027_letters_govs.htm

Harry Colmery, a Topekan, is credited with writing the initial draft of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the GI Bill of Rights. He was part of a committee formed by the ...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/026_colmery_harry.htm

Harriet Adams wrote about her memories of the Christmas when she was seven years old. This story conveys her anticipation of this holiday in a delightful way. She outlines the families various tr...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/025_christmas_1870.htm

Immigrants flocked to Kansas in the 1870s in response to the opening of vast tracts of land for white settlement. Their excitement was fueled in no small part by brochures the railroads were dist...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/024_immigrant_guides.htm

Dwight D. Eisenhower--a sailor??? In 1910, Dwight D. Eisenhower requested an appointment to West Point or the naval academy from his U. S. Senator Joseph Bristow of Salina, Kansas. This podcast f...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/023_eisenhower.htm

In many ways, Elam Bartholomew was a typical Kansas settler as he encountered most of the challenges facing those settling on the Great Plains. He is an extraordinary Kansan because he recorded h...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/022_bartholomew_elam.htm

Before statehood, Kansas was part of the original "Indian Territory" located west of the Mississippi River. This land was intended to be the permanent home for Indian tribes that were removed fro...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/021_indian_removal.htm

As the citizens of Territorial Kansas were writing constitutions that would determine whether or not slavery was allowed in Kansas, they were also debating the issues of voting rights for blacks ...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/020_struggle_for_equality.htm

After the Civil War, freed slaves in the South faced an uncertain future. Economically destitute, they struggled to establish schools and buy their own land. The establishment of the sharecroppin...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/019_exodusters.htm

The Howard Committee was established by the U.S. congress to investigate the widespread claims of voting fraud in Kansas Territory. Over 1300 pages of testimony was recorded concerning fraud and ...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/018_election_fraud.htm

When Samuel Reader moved to Kansas Territory in May of 1855, he continued chronicling his life and adventures during the "Border Wars". He was a self-trained artist and included illustrations and...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/017_reader_samuel.htm

John Brown was an ardent anti slavery proponent. Because of his well know acts of violence including his raid on the government arsenal at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, he is often portrayed as ...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/016_john_brown.htm

Andrew Horatio Reeder was appointed the first Governor of Kansas Territory in 1854. He started out supporting the pro-slavery government, but shifted to the opposition, and eventually had to flee...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/015_reeder_andrew.htm

John James Ingalls came to Kansas Territory as a young man. He was raised in Massachusetts and trained as a lawyer. He first settled in Sumner, Atchison County. The letters home to his father in ...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/014_ingalls_john2.htm

Joseph Trego was one of the earliest settlers in Sugar Mound, Kansas Territory, in Linn County, which was renamed Mound City, Kansas in 1859. Although he was a doctor in Illinois, he helped build...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/013_trego_joseph.htm

John James Ingalls came to Kansas as a young man and became one its most prominent citizens. His letters home question his fortitude to endure the hardships he is experiencing, describe his effor...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/012_ingalls_john.htm

Ellen Goodnow and Maria Felt were early settlers sponsored by antislavery groups who wanted Kansas Territory to be admitted to the Union as a free state. Both of these women sent encouraging repo...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/011_rockyroad_2.htm

Samuel and Florella Adair came to Kansas Territory to support the efforts to prohibit slavery in Kansas. Both were natives of Hudson, Ohio, deeply committed abolitionists and graduates of Oberlin...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/010_adair.htm

Julia Louisa Lovejoy, was the deeply religious wife of a Methodist Episcopal minister, and an ardent abolitionist. Julia's family traveled to Kansas Territory in 1855, under the auspices of the N...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/009_lovejoy.htm

James Lane was one of the most influential, and controversial, characters in Kansas during the territorial period. Originally a politician in Indiana, he moved to Kansas in 1855 and joined the fr...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/008_james_lane.htm

Dr. Charles Robinson and his wife, Sarah, were both prominent figures in the battle to make Kansas a free state. But that doesn't mean they always saw eye-to-eye. Hear, in their own words, what i...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/007_robinsons.htm

Diaries provide glimpses of the routine and the unusual. Chestina Bowker Allen was 46 years old when she came to Kansas with her husband and 5 children to aid the free state cause. Her diary desc...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/006_allen_diary.htm

Pro slavery supporters gained control of the territorial government in Kansas but free state supporters claimed election fraud and set up their own legislature with their own officials. Lawrence,...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/005_sack_lawrence.htm

Life in Kansas Territory was difficult and sometimes dangerous. However, settlers also held dances and started cultural institutions similar to those they left behind. Listen to invitations to so...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/004_social_life.htm

Some abolitionists in Kansas were committed to freeing slaves. Wanted posters were printed for escaped slave while others printed messages that urged homeowners to resist those searching for runa...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/003_slavery2.htm

Slavery in Kansas Territory was a reality. Listen to the penalties imposed for encouraging slaves to escape or rebel and to a "bill of sale" for an African American woman. Hear Marcus Freeman's r...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/002_slavery1.htm

Kansas Territory was a dangerous place to live. Listen to the letters of Cyrus K. and Mary Holliday, John Brown, and Sene Campbell as they describe the real threats experienced by those involved ...

http://www.kshs.org/audiotours/kansasmemory/001_lettershome.htm