Before peanuts
As a young man, botanist George Washington Carver, famous for his research on peanuts, claimed 160 acres of land under the Homestead Act near the town of Beelerville,...
Camping with a future president
Future president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his pals were photographed while camping along the Smoky Hill River near Abilene, Kansas, about 1908. Eisenhower, who was 17...
Oleo Gang
This prisoner, convicted of selling Oleomargarine, colored to look like butter, without paying the $10 per pound tax, were sentenced from one to five years at the...
Oleo Gang
This prisoner, Joseph Wirth, was convicted of selling Oleomargarine, colored to look like butter, without paying the 10 cents per pound tax. He spent more than three...
Separate is not equal
On May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that separate but equal public schools violated the 14th...
Tradition
Patricia Duncan photographed Mary Louise White Cloud Rhodd in October 1974, in White Cloud, Kansas. The granddaughter of Chief White Cloud, for whom the town is...
Who went first?
This 1953 U.S. Supreme Court document lists the order of argument for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The Court originally heard the six separate cases...