Posted by: britster59 on: July 24, 2008
This past weekend I went to Chicago. While visiting I was able to go to the Field Museum. While in the museum thee was a special exhibit going on about natural disasters. This is the link to the description if you are intrested http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/nature_tempexhib.htm. When I was walking through the exhibet the section on tornadoes really [...]
Posted by: britster59 on: July 17, 2008
This article out of the Topeka Capital-Journal outlines the issues of segregation that still exist in society today, well at least in 1986 when this article was written. The article highlights one of the plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board trial and how she has dealt with segregation and the issues surrounding it, and also [...]
Posted by: britster59 on: July 10, 2008
This letter from Howard Bucknell, president of the Jewell County Farm Bureau shows the desperation some farmers had with matters relating to the drought. It is described in this letter that water resources are almost completely depleted, leaving no water to live on and feed livestock. I can only imagine how depressing and stress full [...]
Posted by: britster59 on: July 2, 2008
The flier found at http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/290/page/1 is a great way to depict the health concerns of many during this era, the 1920s. The flier uses the common “Jack and Jill” riddle to get the process of Typhoid Fever contamination across to the public. This is a really clever and creative way to help the general public realize how they [...]
