Midwestern Studies

Official twitter feed of @UMKCHistory's Center for Midwestern Studies, advancing the study of Mid-America through research, teaching, & public programming.

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We are back at it! We're hosting Crossroads of Conflict @NEHgov Landmarks workshops summer 2017. Details are at: https://t.co/ucKqIiN0LJ

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Calling all students, scholars & authors. Explore the historic townsite of Quindaro, KS with @ffnha #CFPFriday https://t.co/tFkpPZB8mN

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We are proud to co-sponsor @UMKCLibraries GLAMA events commemorating KC #LGBT History https://t.co/BIgRbcbCKF

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A project supported by the Center's internship program! https://t.co/hVnW51C7eB

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Congrats to PhD student @midwestmedicine on his new book w/ Sharron Hunt on the @Chiefs Arrowhead Art Collection!

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Look for an digital edited collection of #oralhistories on social activism in KC history soon! https://t.co/2N378HQiHz

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Loving the new @MoHumanities program! Be sure to check out the piece on the @FFNHA Interpreting Slavery workshop

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Thanks @ffnha @MoHumanities @KCLibrary @UMKCHSCP & all #OpenTownKC guests for the support and loving #KCHistory just as much as we do!

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Be on the lookout for a wonderful @KCLibrary website and a forthcoming edited volume featuring our panelists on the history of #OpenTownKC

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That concludes presentations for #OpenTownKC Thanks to our hosts @KCLibrary Truman Forum, all the presenters, and our engaged audiences

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Question about if history helps solve urban issues @KCLibrary's Crosby Kemper III points to KC Research https://t.co/dtGsDquWU8 #OpenTownKC

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And now, questions for panelists @sarakstevens, Jaclyn Miller, @jpherron86 , and Jason Roe @KCLibrary #OpenTownKC

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Jason Roe notes diff btw overblown descriptions of new negro hospital in KC and its reality (shortages of staff, supplies etc) #OpenTownKC

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KC's white municipal hospital skimmed supplies and funds from Black General Hospital #2 - Jason Roe @KCLibrary #OpenTownKC

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General Hospital #2 emerged as the most fertile ground for political patronage in the Black Community - Jason Roe @KCLibrary #OpenTownKC

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Even a world-class hospital couldn't escape the endemic corruption of the Pendergast machine - Jason Roe @KCLibrary #OpenTownKC

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Jason Roe on Kansas City's Black General Hospital #2 @KCLibrary #OpenTownKC

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Unlike segregated stockyards in other cities, African Americans actively participated in KC's meatpacking unions. -@jpherron86 #OpenTownKC

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But KC meatpackers confined African Americans to the worst jobs at the stockyards -@jpherron86 @KCLibrary #OpenTownKC

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In segregated KC, meatpacking offered one of the few employment opportunities for African Americans -@jpherron86 @KCLibrary #OpenTownKC

[Valerie Mendoza @valmarmen]

John Herron's talk on KC's meat packing plants in the 1920s makes me glad to be vegetarian! #OpenTownKC @KCLibrary @MidwestStudies