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Library touts Kansas history

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Library touts Kansas history
The 150th anniversary of  Kansas’ statehood presented an opportunity to showcase history that the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library just couldn’t resist. So every week of the state’s sesquicentennial year, the library is posting a video on its website featuring a piece of the history that resides in the books, documents and art of the library’s Special Collections. read more

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Posted by on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 10:58 pm 
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The Dust Bowl – Okies, Kansas, California & Route 66

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Educational video of the Dust Bowl of the 1920’s. Super to use in American History classes, but I use it with the Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Photos are either freeware or from the Finney County Historical Museum in Kansas. … Dust Bowl Educational History Literature Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Kansas Garden City California 66

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Posted by on Monday, January 25, 2010 at 12:26 am 
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