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River City Chronicles

River City Chronicles: Bill Snead, part 3
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Photojournalist Bill Snead talks about photographing the Beatles and the exhibit of his photographs.

River City Chronicles: Bill Snead
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Senior editor Bill Snead got his start in photojournalism thanks to his high school's vice-principal.

River City Chronicles: Bill Snead, part 2
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Photojournalist Bill Snead remembers his time as U.P.I. Photo Bureau Chief in Saigon, Vietnam.

River City Chronicles: Final installment
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
In the final installment of River City Chronicles, Journal-World reporter Greg Hurd talks about how the founding of Lawrence and other communities forced Native Americans to migrate southward.

Tragic history of native peoples in eastern Kansas largely unmourned
Sunday, September 12, 2004
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 had vastly different effects on the native peoples of eastern Kansas and the European-American settlers to which it would open the gates to the area.

Video: Kansas-Nebraska Act institutes popular sovereignty
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Greg Hurd takes a look back at the federal legislation that opened the Kansas territory and the consequenses it held for the native people of the area in this week's River City Chronicles.

Kansas-Nebraska Act turned Indian lands into slavery battleground
Sunday, September 5, 2004
The boldest legislative stroke leading to "Bleeding Kansas" and the Civil War occurred on May 30, 1854, when President Pierce signed into law the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Video: U.S. government threw white squatters off American Indian land in the 1800s
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
The attempt to leave behind European-American encroachment in the East and upper Midwest would prove a losing proposition for most native peoples coming to eastern Kansas in the 19th century.

U.S. government threw white squatters off American Indian land in the 1800s
Sunday, August 29, 2004
The attempt to leave behind European-American encroachment in the East and upper Midwest would prove a losing proposition for most native peoples coming to eastern Kansas in the 19th century.

Video: American Indians settled near Kansas River
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
When President Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act of 1830, eastern Kansas became a major stage for the unfolding drama between European-Americans and native peoples.

American Indians settled near Kansas River
Sunday, August 22, 2004
When President Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act of 1830, eastern Kansas became a major stage for the unfolding drama between European-Americans and native peoples.

Video: Immigration spurs intertribal conflicts
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Competition and warfare between American Indian tribes had not been a significant problem in what is now eastern Kansas prior to the implementation of federal policies in the 180s and the Indian Removal Act of 1830. With the forced emigration of native peoples to the area, pressures increased on the numerous tribes in the area.

Indian Removal Act spurred intertribal warfare in Kansas
Sunday, August 15, 2004
What had been standard practice toward American Indians became law when President Jackson pushed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 through Congress.

Video: Trail of Tears increases pressures in Kansas
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
The forced removal of Native Americans from the eastern United States led them to Kansas.

Indian past dotted with many Trails of Tears
Sunday, August 8, 2004
The 1820s and 1830s were years of immense change for the native peoples of eastern Kansas -- most of it for the worse.

Video: Opening of great trails spell beginning of end
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
The beginning of the end of the Native American way of life came as the first settlers moved westward across the Kansas plains in the early 19th century.

European-American move west devastated eastern Kansas Indians
Sunday, August 1, 2004
When William Becknell followed the route from Missouri through Kansas in 1821 that would officially become known as the Santa Fe Trail, it opened a new chapter in the European-American move west -- a chapter largely devastating to the native population of eastern Kansas.

River City Chronicles: Early Euro-Americans blaze trails
Monday, July 26, 2004
Explorers such as Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Capt. William Clark and the "mountain men" laid the groundwork for later settlements by Euro-Americans -- and the devastation to the natives via diseases that followed.

Trails cleared way for Euro-Americans
Sunday, July 25, 2004
During their search for a water route to the Pacific, Lewis and Clark were instructed to be surveyors and cartographers. Much of the land known as present-day America was basically uncharted territory when the Corps of Discovery made their brief visit to Kansas in July 1804.

River City Chronicles: American Indian life in the 1800s
Monday, July 19, 2004
The state of Kansas was named for the Kansa or Kaw Indians, whose name means "people of the south wind." They were one of the major Indian tribes -- along with the Osage, Oto and Missouri -- in northeast Kansas in the early 1800s.

White migration ravaged Kansas Indians with disease
Sunday, July 18, 2004
A summer day in 1800 probably felt to a Kansa Indian very similar to how the early summer weather this year felt to Lawrence residents.

River City Chronicles: Changed landscape influences understanding of history
Monday, July 12, 2004
Randy Thies, an archaeologist for the Kansas State Historical Society, and Dan Wildcat, professor of American Indian Studies at Haskell Indian Nations University, discuss the changes in the landscape between preterritorial and present-day Kansas in the first in a multipart series on eastern Kansas during the preterritorial period.

Busting a desert myth
Sunday, July 11, 2004
When explorer Stephen Long passed through the plains, including portions of what is now Kansas, on his journey west in 1819 and 1820, he described what he saw as the "Great American Desert." He couldn't have been more wrong.

River City Chronicles: John Brown's role in abolition
Monday, July 5, 2004
Historian Matthew Veatch and Kansas University assistant professor of history Jonathan Earle describe the radical nature of John Brown's egalitarian social and political positions regarding blacks.

River City Chronicles: Lawrence has history of radical abolition
Monday, June 28, 2004
Historian Matthew Veatch and Kansas University assistant professor of history Jonathan Earle discuss the anti-slavery movement in mid-1850s Lawrence.

River City Chronicles: Anti-Slavery Movement
Monday, June 21, 2004
Matthew Veatch, Kansas State Historical Society assistant state historian, and Jonathan Earle, assistant professor of history at Kansas University, describe the anti-slavery movement and the people at its forefront in 1850s Lawrence in "Anti-slavery: Evolutionaries and Revolutionaries in Lawrence."

River City Chronicles: City's founders spurred by charity, economy
Monday, June 14, 2004
Historian Matthew Veatch completes the story of the New England Emigrant Aid Company as he discusses the role of Lawrence's namesake, Amos Lawrence, in the founding of the city.

River City Chronicles: Founding of Lawrence
Monday, June 7, 2004
Historian Matthew Veatch relates the role of the New England Emigrant Aid Company in the founding of Lawrence.

River City Chronicles: Kansas-Nebraska Act
Monday, May 31, 2004
"River City Weekly" host Greg Hurd takes a look back at the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, one of the keys to the start of the Civil War.

River City Chronicles: John Brown
Monday, May 24, 2004
"River City Weekly" host Greg Hurd recounts the story of John Brown and the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre.