The Extreme Weather of Kansas
You may know that Kansas is famous for tornado and extreme weather, Let’s take a look at some different extreme weather events from the...
Cold War in Kansas
Once the US and the Soviet Union were great allies around WWII. But, by 1947 the relationship was tense. The US was worried about the...
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas. His parents were David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover...
Civil Rights in Kansas
KKK in Kansas 44 years after the Klu Klux Klan had been banned by President Ulysses S. Grant, the Klu Klux Klan had finally risen up...
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of education is one of the most important Supreme Court cases. The Brown vs. Board case was held due to violations of the...
What is a Ogallala Aquifer?
Do you know we're your water comes from? If you live in the Midwest it probably come from the Ogallala Aquifer. An aquifer is a giant...
The Biggest Flu Epidemic in the World
The biggest flu epidemic in the world was the “Spanish Flu” outbreak in 1918, just about at the end of World War 2. The Spanish Flu...
The Government will Pay me to Work?
The new deal had occurred in 1933 due to the stock market crash. At this time millions of people were out of work. At the time the...
WWII in Kansas
In 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a “nonaggression pact” which meant that Germany and the Soviets could not fight against each other for...
Dr. James Naismith
When you first think of Kansas you think of farmland, but when you think of Kansas sports you automatically think of basketball. Not many...