Local writer Sarah St. John pulls from the Journal-World archives to compile reports of what it was like to be in Lawrence decades ago.
According to figures compiled by the Red Cross, national membership in the organization grew from 107 members in 1914 to 3,864 in 1918. The Red Cross chapter in Lawrence had formed before the U.S. entered the “Great War,” and a week before President Wilson’s announcement, a small ...
The entry of the United States into the “Great War” signaled an abrupt change in the treatment of German Americans in the Lawrence area. In late March, 1917, the Lawrence Journal-World reported that after 39 years in this country, local resident David Passon was “as thoroughly an ...
As she looked at a print from Kansas Territorial Days displayed in the Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum, Martha Parker pointed to man in the photograph.“That man’s grandson hired me for my first teaching job,” she said. From her birth 88 years ago to Les and Florence Demeritt on a ...
“One subject and one only is now a topic of conversation in Lawrence.”On April 6, 1917, whistles were sounded in Lawrence to alert residents to the long-expected news: At 1:11 p.m., President Woodrow Wilson had signed a congressional resolution declaring a state of war between the United ...
When Jesse Milan, a black teacher in Lawrence schools, was looking for a home to buy in Lawrence in the 1960s, he was shown a house with a dirt floor.At a program Saturday at the Carnegie Building commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lawrence City Commission adopting a fair housing ordinance, ...
The Lawrence Public Library, Watkins Community Museum and Douglas County Genealogical Society on Sunday launched their collaborative online local history portal with a warning about the site’s seductive content. Addressing a Kansas Day gathering at the Lawrence Public Library marking the ...