Kansas – Victor E. History

S8, E5- “Giving Boot Hill the Boot” with Sarah Keiss

In the last episode of Season 8, Hollie is joined by FHSU MA student Sarah Keiss. Sarah talks about Hays’s Boot Hill cemetary and its memory.

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Selected Bibliography:

“Skeleton Found in Boot Hill Here Believed That of Dance Hall Girl Who Killed Herself.” Hays Daily News, May 29, 1909.

Ellis County Historical Society History Book Committee. At Home in Ellis County, Kansas 1867-1992: Volume 1. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1991.

Forsythe, James. Lighthouse on the Plains: Fort Hays State University, 1902-2002. Hays: Fort Hays State University, 2002.

Marquess, Hollie. “The Frontier Demimonde: Prostitution in Early Hays City, 1867-1883.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 43, no. 4 (Winter 2020-21): 216-233. https://scholars.fhsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=history_facpub.

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-program.

Season 6, Episode 7- “John F. Kennedy’s 1959 Visit to Hays, Kansas” with Randy Gonzales”

Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy sits at a banquet table with Sixth District chairman Norbert Dreiling of Hays at a fundraising dinner on Nov. 20, 1959. With them are students from Girls Catholic High School, who were servers at the banquet. Courtesy photo

In the last episode of this season, Hollie is joined by history department alum Randy Gonzales. Randy is an expert on J.F.K.’s 1959 visit to Hays, KS. Kennedy’s visit to Hays included a stop at the radio station, a news conference at Fort Hays State University (home of Victor E. Tiger and Victor E. History!), a parade, and a banquet.

At the banquet, guests had Apple Pie ala Democrat for dessert. Randy shared this photograph from his Apple Pie ala Democrat at the banquet held in 2019 that was a recreation of the 1959 event.

Randy recently worked to get a plaque put on the wall of the FHSU Memorial Union to commemorate Kennedy’s visit to Fort Hays.

Randy earned his M.A. in history at FHSU and wrote his thesis on Kennedy’s visit to Hays.

Season 5 Episode 5- “Kansas Methodists and the KKK” with Susan Elliott

In our first episode of the season, junior history major Susan Elliot joins Hollie to discuss the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas and its interaction with Kansas Methodists.

Selected Bibliography:

Baker, Kelly J. Gospel According to the Klan: the KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915- 1930. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011.

“Kansas Ku Klux Donate $8160 to Wesley.” Wichita Sunday Eagle, November 19, 1922. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/64381053. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/64381056.

“Ku Klux Klan Enters Kansas.” Emporia Gazette, July 23, 1921. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/16523569/?terms=%22ku%20klux %20klan%22&match=1.

“To the Lovers of Law and Order, Peace and Justice and to All Whom of Right It May Concern.” Evening Star, April 8, 1922. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/76634588/?terms=%22ku %20lux&match=1

Rives,Tim. The Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City, Kansas. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2019.

“Stinging Reply to Editor Who Criticized Klan Gift to Hospital is Hurled.” Evening Star, December 11, 1922. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/76632573/? terms=%22methodist%22&match=1.

S4, E2- “Obscenity law and the Supreme Court” with Ashlynn Kelly

Ashlynn Kelly, senior history major at FHSU, joins Hollie Marquess to talk about Anthony Comstock, how the Supreme Court tried to define obscenity, and Kansas’s relationship with obscenity law.

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Selected Bibliography:

Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413 (1966), https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/383/413/.

Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.usreports/usrep413&div=10&start_page=15&collection=usreports&set_as_cursor=2&men_tab=srchresults.

Quantity of Books et al. v. Kansas, 378 U.S. 205 (1964), https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.usreports/usrep378&div=25&start_page=205&collection=usreports&set_as_cursor=0&men_tab=srchresults.

Roth v. United States, 354 US 476 (1957), https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=usreports&handle=hein.usreports/usrep354&id=517&men_tab=srchresults.

State v. A Motion Picture Entitled “The Bet,” 219 Kan. 64, 547 P.2d 760 (Kan. 1976) https://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLawAuth?cid=1904294&native_id=1904294&rest=1&collection=fastcasefull.

Swearingen v. United States, 161 U.S. 446, 16 S.Ct. 562 (1896), https://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLawAuth?cid=348734&native_id=348734&rest=1&collection=fastcasefull.

United States v. One Book Called “Ulysses,” 5 F. Supp. 182 (S. D. New York 1933), https://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLawAuth?cid=7165726&native_id=7165726&rest=1&collection=fastcasefull.