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Title
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Profile: Martha Dodge Nichols
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Description
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Interview with Martha Dodge Nichols, wife of Jessie Clyde Nichols Jr., who has lived in Mission Hills for 64 years. "Nichols will celebrate her 97th birthday on Sept. 14, 2011."
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Date
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2011
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Arch Rivals
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Description
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Photo and article mentioning the architect Alice Gertrude Jackson who moved to Kansas City in 1910 and later designed and built dozens of homes around Kansas City.
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Date
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2011
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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"Like a Brilliant Thread"
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Description
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Article recounts the December 1921 coal strike in southeast Kansas involving the "Amazon Army"- the wives, mothers, sisters, and friends of the striking mine workers. They led a series of marches to prevent any escalation of violence, but also to keep strikebreakers from reopening closed Kansas mines.
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Date
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2011
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Special Civil War Issue
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Description
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Among the key articles in this special issue about the Civil War are the following: "New Madrid Bend, 1862: The Most Important Civil War Battle in Missouri;" "Building Union From Neutrality: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War;" "'They Go in Droves Every Night': Enslaved Missourians' Journey to Freedom;" "Florence M. Cornyn: St. Louis Physician and Union Cavalry Colonel;" "Banished!: How Lily Frost, Lucy Nicholson, and Harriet Snodgrass Paid the Price of Disloyalty;" and "A Vicotry in Boone County: The Unlikely Emancipation of Sanford Shirkey."
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Date
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2011
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Object Type
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Magazine
