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Reviewed Work Educating The Disfranchised And Disinherited Samuel Chapman Armstrong And Hampton Institute, 1839-1893 By Robert Francis Engs, Edna Greene Medford
Reviewed Work Educating The Disfranchised And Disinherited Samuel Chapman Armstrong And Hampton Institute, 1839-1893 By Robert Francis Engs, Edna Greene Medford
Edna Greene Medford
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’Want To Build A Miracle City?’: War Housing In Wichita, Julie Courtwright
’Want To Build A Miracle City?’: War Housing In Wichita, Julie Courtwright
Julie Courtwright
Now behold the day of the war industries,” wrote famed Kansas editor William Allen White in 1942. “Towns like Wichita, Pittsburg, Parsons are being transformed.” And transformed they were. Wichita, seemingly overnight, changed forever from what one citizen called a “sleepy little cow town” to a booming city that “shook off the doldrums of the Great Depression to become one of the nation’s busiest military production centers” in the wake of World War II.