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Happy #ThrowbackThursday! 📸 Check out this classic view of 13th & Main looking North. Downtown has always been the heart of our community.
What are your favorite memories of downtown Hays from years past? Reply with your stories! 👇
#HaysKS #TBT #DowntownHays #KansasHistory
👉 Learn more about the incredible life of Kansan Louisa Ehrichs Schwanbeck by visiting the Russell Specialty Books and Gifts on Saturday, April 25, starting at 11:00AM CST.
📚 Learn more about the book A Grand Day here: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641154/
#RussellKS #KansasHistory #UPKansas
👉 Veda Rogers will be at High Plains Museum on Saturday, April 25th, starting at 2:30PM.
📚 Learn more about the book A Grand Day: The Forgotten Voice of a Farm Woman Through Dust, Depression, and War https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641154/
#KansasHistory #FarmLife #WWII #UPKansas
🎬 Discover the life and legacy of Buster Keaton—the “Great Stone Face” whose daring stunts and deadpan humor made him a legend of early Hollywood.
👉 hometownstohollywood.com/kansas/buste...
#BusterKeaton #SilentFilm #ClassicHollywood #FilmHistory #OldHollywood #KansasHistory
🙌 Here’s to 80 years of preserving Kansas stories.
Books featured:
Heartland Utopia: https: https://shorturl.at/sO5On
Roadside Kansas: https://shorturl.at/fcLwp
All-American City: https://shorturl.at/j8FLO
Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: https://shorturl.at/QuOuA
#KansasHistory #UPKansas
Eudora Then and Now! Pics taken in same place, SW corner of 10th/Church, but 92 years apart. In 1931, Gus Bohnsack built this Standard Oil filling station. It was expanded in 1940s, original building demolished in 1952. #kansashistory #fillingstation #vintage #StandardOil
I'll be reading my piece, "Letters from Remington" at the Frederic Remington Area Historical Society's Writing Contest Award Ceremony (see link for more information)!
#FredericRemington #KansasHistory #HistoricalFiction #WritingCommunity #ButlerCountyKS
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Come see us at the Kansas Association of Historians Conference in Topeka, Kansas!
@washburnuniversity.bsky.social
#KansasHistory #KansasHistorians #WasbhurnUniversity #TopekaKansas #UPKansas
🌾 The Midwestern identity is more than geography; It is a story that shapes how we understand our own communities. 🎉 Celebrate 80 years of Midwest stories. Thank you for being part of a community that keeps these voices alive.
#Midwest #KansasHistory #Heartland #AmericanMidwest #UPKansas
Ranger Sarah is at a marker for the Butterfield Overland Dispatch (BOD) route in Kansas. Learn more about this marker at https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=92934
Ranger Sarah is at a marker for the Butterfield Overland Dispatch (BOD) route in Kansas. Learn more about this marker at www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=92934
#adventuresofrangersarah #rangersarah #Kansas #explorekansas #kansashistory #outdooradventures #exploremore #history
Newton Public Library invites you to an evening celebrating Kansas Landscapes: A Photo Tour of Geological History.📍 Newton Public Library, 223 East 7th, Newton, KS 67114 on Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM.
#KansasLandscapes #UPKansas #KansasEvents #NewtonKS #KansasHistory #ExploreKansas
🏙️ Join Chase Billingham, author of All-American City, for a powerful conversation at Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum, 204 South Main Street, Wichita, KS 67202
📅 Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM
#UPKansas #AllAmericanCity #WichitaKS #KansasHistory #BookTalk
Greeting from Smokey Hill Army Air Field, Salina, Kansas Postcard
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#SmokyHillArmyAirField #SalinaKansas #ArmyAirForces #WorldWarIIAviation #MilitaryAirfield #CurtTeich #Postcard #VintagePostcard #AviationHistory #KansasHistory #Avgeek
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT! Heartland Utopia: William Allen White on the Ideal Midwestern Town edited by Charles Delgadillo & Jason Stacy is now available: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640287/
#williamallenwhite #kansashistory #smalltown #midwest #upkansas
📣 New Podcast! "The Garden of Eden" on @Spreaker #fyp #gardenofeden #kansashistory #nailedittravelcompany #showmeyourtrips #travel #travelpodcast #traveltipsandtricks #unfilteredstudios #unfpod
Read a story that revisits the history of an African American settlement in Kansas—one that has largely been forgotten or ignored for decades.
#BlackHistoryMonth #Exoduster #BlackHistory #KansasHistory #SmallTownKansas #ForgottenHistory
In 2021, about a dozen descendants of the Exodusters returned to Stafford County to establish connections with their ancestors. Beccy Tanner wrote about the homecoming for The Journal.
#BlackHistoryMonth #Exoduster #BlackHistory #KansasHistory #SmallTownKansas #ForgottenHistory
Shows purple cover of the next issue, with a colorful painting that shows a collection of red farm buildings, green trees, and a wheatfield with a bright sky. Text reads: "Coming Soon!"
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is coming soon! Cover art by Birger Sandzén, courtesy of the Birger Sandzén Memorial Art Gallery in Lindsborg. #kansashistory
Author Raquel Ramsey had a splendid time at the movie premiere of Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey story based on the book written with coauthor @triciaaurand.bsky.social (kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700634163/).
#kansashistory #womenshistory #WorldWarII #femalepilot #upkansas
Check out January's bookshelf and upcoming author talk with Todd Mildfelt, David D. Schafer who co-wrote "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind," library.ks.gov/KS250/January #KansasHistory
Discover 10 unexpected facts about Kansas in the intellectual playground at 500ways.com/kansas ( #Kansas, #USHistory, #KansasHistory, #KansasGeography, #DodgeCity, #racialDiscrimination, #Wichita, #WichitaKansas)
The Italianate-style two-story Coolidge State Bank was built in 1888 at the northeast corner of Maple and Highway 50 (Coolidge Avenue). The rectangular native stone corner building had elaborate Greek Revival ornamentation, a flat roof, and two bank vaults. The building still stands today. Photo by Kathy Alexander.
🚂 Once a booming railroad town, Coolidge, Kansas, thrived with opera houses, cattle drives & Harvey House hospitality. Today, echoes of its past still stand in stone. Discover its fascinating rise & fall 👉 legendsofkansas.com/coolidge-kan... #KansasHistory #SantaFeTrail
Ottawa Kansas opened their 1892 courthouse time capsule yesterday and I cannot wait to get my hands on those lodge rosters #KansasHistory #skystorians
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Stagecoach Painting by Richard Lorenz.
Before railroads, stagecoaches carried mail, passengers & dreams across Kansas. From the Santa Fe Trail to Fort Scott, these rugged routes connected towns & frontier forts.
Discover the untamed Kansas highways of the Old West 👉 legendsofkansas.com/kansas-stage...
#KansasHistory #OldWest
Order today and receive 40% off with discount code: UPKHOLIDAY25 (kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700628421/).
#smokyhills #kansashistory #rockcarvings #nativeamericanhistory #petroglyphs #photography #nativeamericanculture #PlainsIndians #rockart #archaeology #upkansas
Amelia Earhart on a Lockheed Electra with Purdue University coeds
#aviation #history #Kansashistory #womeninhistory
Discover 10 unexpected facts about Kansas in the intellectual playground at 500ways.com/kansas ( #Kansas, #USHistory, #KansasHistory, #KansasGeography, #DodgeCity, #racialDiscrimination, #Wichita, #WichitaKansas)
Photo of a wide open dirt street, in Marysville, with buildings on either side and few tree trees.
Have you been curious about German settlement in early Kansas? Our Autumn 2025 issue (out now!) includes an article on Marshall County German immigrants. DM us for more details. 🍂 #kansashistory
Discover 10 unexpected facts about Kansas in the intellectual playground at 500ways.com/kansas ( #Kansas, #USHistory, #KansasHistory, #KansasGeography, #DodgeCity, #racialDiscrimination, #Wichita, #WichitaKansas)
