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Author: Publisher: Remembering ISBN: 9781683368441 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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By the mid nineteenth century, Kansas City was an important trading center for the westward movement. Through the late 1800s, two world wars, and into the modern era, Kansas City has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity through the strength and resolve of its citizens. With a selection of fine historic images from her bestselling book Historic Photos of Kansas City, Lara Copeland provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Kansas City. This volume, Remembering Kansas City, captures this journey through still photography from the city's finest archives. From the Civil War, to the turn of the century, to the building of a modern metropolis, Remembering Kansas City follows life, government, education, and events throughout Kansas City's history. This book captures unique and rare scenes as depicted in more than a hundred historic photographs. Published in vivid black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.
Author: Publisher: Turner ISBN: 9781596526099 Category : Historic buildings Languages : en Pages : 0
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By the mid nineteenth century, Kansas City was an important trading center for the westward movement. Through the late 1800s, two world wars, and into the modern era, Kansas City has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity through the strength and resolve of its citizens. With a selection of fine historic images from her bestselling book Historic Photos of Kansas City, Lara Copeland provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Kansas City. This volume, Remembering Kansas City, captures this journey through still photography from the city's finest archives. From the Civil War, to the turn of the century, to the building of a modern metropolis, Remembering Kansas City follows life, government, education, and events throughout Kansas City's history. This book captures unique and rare scenes as depicted in more than a hundred historic photographs. Published in vivid black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.
Author: Patrick Alley Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 0738588504 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 130
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Hyde Park, located on Westport's outskirts south of early Kansas City, was the first stop on the long trek down the Santa Fe Trail. Good pasture and a natural cave spring were early attributes. During the real estate boom of the 1880s, the area was platted, but the crash of 1888 intervened, and only a few houses were built. By 1900, with the recovery of the economy and the development of Janssen Place as a private street, the area became the preferred community for Kansas City's wealthy. The architectural style is Queen Anne, Prairie School, Neo-Georgian, Colonial Revival, Kansas City Shirtwaist, and Shingle. These homes glitter with original brass fixtures, lead and stained-glass windows, and oak, mahogany, and walnut interiors. Some of Kansas City's most famous and notorious have lived in Hyde Park, from wealthy businessmen and entertainment stars to serial killers.
Author: Dave Tell Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022655967X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 323
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Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you’ll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and injustice that became a beacon in the fight for racial equality. The ways this event is remembered have been fraught from the beginning, revealing currents of controversy, patronage, and racism lurking just behind the placid facades of historical markers. In Remembering Emmett Till, Dave Tell gives us five accounts of the commemoration of this infamous crime. In a development no one could have foreseen, Till’s murder—one of the darkest moments in the region’s history—has become an economic driver for the Delta. Historical tourism has transformed seemingly innocuous places like bridges, boat landings, gas stations, and riverbeds into sites of racial politics, reminders of the still-unsettled question of how best to remember the victim of this heinous crime. Tell builds an insightful and persuasive case for how these memorials have altered the Delta’s physical and cultural landscape, drawing potent connections between the dawn of the civil rights era and our own moment of renewed fire for racial justice.
Author: Andrea Broomfield Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467145866 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 176
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Generations of families and restaurateurs have loyally turned out the delectable foods that made Kansas City the food destination that it is. Opened in 1930, the Infante family's El Nopal at 416 West Thirteenth Street is reputedly the first restaurant to introduce a wider Kansas City audience to Mexican food. The city's beloved Savoy Grill was not only one of Harry S Truman's favorite haunts but also the restaurant where many Kansas Citians remember eating their first lobster dinner. Amazin' Grace Harris's tiny Kansas City, Kansas H & M Barbecue kept alive Kansas City's Paris of the Plains reputation--for those in the know. Author and native Andrea Broomfield goes on a journey to discover the roots of Kansas City's favorite restaurants.
Author: Civil War Civil War Round Table of Kansas City Publisher: ISBN: 9781987790832 Category : Languages : en Pages : 430
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Members, past and present, of the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City have compiled a fascinating collection of information about their ancestors who served and lived during the American Civil War. Some of the ancestors were true heroes. Most were solid patriotic private soldiers. Some became prisoners of war. Many were wounded. A few were killed in action. Those who survived the war almost all became upstanding and valuable citizens of the reunited country.The Civil War Round Table of Kansas City (http://cwrtkc.org/) was founded in 1958 through the leadership of former President Harry S. Truman. The Round Table meets for dinner each month, featuring speakers who are well known authorities on Civil War topics. Today, the men and women of the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City continue their commitment to maintain our Civil War history.
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