In the 1960s Lady Bird Johnson sought to improve the natural appearance of Washington, D.C., to make the nation's highways less cluttered with billboards and junkyards, and to advance the environmental agenda of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. The popular understanding of what she did remains incomplete, and her role as a woman conservationist has ......
Unique among presidents' wives, Lady Bird Johnson was not only one of the leading environmentalists of the twentieth century, she also redefined the institution of First Lady. In this first book in an innovative new series, Lewis Gould shows why Mrs. Johnson ranks with Eleanor Roosevelt as a significant innovator of the First Lady role. Building ......
Most of the Indians whose names we remember were warriors-Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo-men who led their people in a desperate defense of their lands and their way of life. But as Alvin Josephy has written, "Some of the Indians' greatest patriots died unsung by white men, and because their peoples were also ......
Keeping the Republic is an eloquent defense of the American constitutional order and a response to its critics, including those who are estranged from the very idea of a fixed constitution in which "the living are governed by the dead." Dennis Hale and Marc Landy take seriously the criticisms of the United States Constitution. Before mounting ......
Legislators, Citizens, and Judges As Guardians of Rights
Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be ......
Because Kansas has been called "the leading Midwestern Populist state," and the Midwestern phrase was the principle one of this significant movement in American history, this first comprehensive history of the Kansas People's party, its leaders, and their thoughts and actions is an important addition to Populist historiography. Through this study ......
Twenty-First-Century Writers on the Sunflower State
An anthology of poetry and prose from thirty-five of today's leading literary voices from the Sunflower State, brought together to explore how Kansas makes us feel and why we're proud to call it home. Kansas Matters gathers thirty-five of the state's leading literary voices to offer profound insights into the feelings that Kansas evokes. This ......
A Photographic Tour of the Region's Geological History
The beauty, diversity, and underlying history of the landscapes in which Kansans live If we view the natural world in the context of time, everything we see becomes a story. Nothing can be truly understood without reference to time and change. Landscapes are molded by the motions of continents, the uplift and erosion of mountains, the rise and ......
This one-stop reference work is a governors' hall of fame-a compendium of information about the 51 men who have held the chief executive post since the opening of the Kansas Territory in 1854. Using both primary and secondary sources, historian Homer Socolofsky sketches a concise biography of each governor and compares their roles in Kansas ......
