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A few blocks southeast of the famed intersection of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri, just a stone's throw from Charlie Parker's old stomping grounds and the current home of the vaunted American Jazz Museum and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, sits Montgall Avenue. This single block was home to some of the most important and influential leaders the city has ever known.Margie Carr's Kansas City's Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home is the extraordinary, century-old history of one city block whose residents shaped the changing status of Black people in Kansas City and built the social and economic institutions that supported the city's Black community during the first half of the twentieth century. The community included, among others, Chester Franklin, founder of the city's Black newspaper, The Call; Lucile Bluford, a University of Kansas alumna who worked at The Call for 69 years; and Dr. John Edward Perry, founder of Wheatley-Provident Hospital, Kansas City's first hospital for Black people. The principal and four teachers from Lincoln High School, Kanas City's only high school for African American students, also lived on the block.While introducing the reader to the remarkable individuals living on Montgall Avenue, Carr also uses this neighborhood as a microcosm of the changing nature of discrimination in twentieth-century America. The city's white leadership had little interest in supporting the Black community and instead used its resources to separate and isolate them. The state of Missouri enforced segregation statues until the 1960s and the federal government created housing policies that erased any assets Black homeowners accumulated, robbing them of their ability to transfer that wealth to the next generation.Today, the 2400 block of Montgall Avenue is situated in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Kansas City. The attitudes and policies that contributed to the neighborhood's changing environment paint a more complete--and disturbing--picture of the role that race in continues to play in America's story.

"Gathering Strays is a collection of vignettes about Kansas, Great Plains, and Western life--historical and contemporary. Jim Hoy has gathered short essays into sections: Cattle Towns, Outlaws, The Cowboy, and several others. He introduces us to folks we've not met--such as failed train robber Elmer McCurdy, whose arsenic-embalmed body went on tour and made money for the undertaker, Joseph Johnson of Pawhuska, KS--and those with whom we're more familiar, such as Jesse James and Buffalo Bill. He tells us about the origin of the cowboy and about Black cowboys and Mexican Vaqueros. He recounts stories about rodeo and cattle drives. And throughout, his style, easy to read yet authoritative, describes the people, places, and events that make the region distinctive and celebrated"--

On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County, in a 6-to-3 decision with a majority opinion authored by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. The decision was a surprise to many, if not most, observers, but as Jason Pierceson explores in this work, it was not completely unanticipated. The decision was grounded in a recent but well-developed shift in federal jurisprudence on the question of LGBTQ+ rights that occurred around 2000, with gender identity claims faring better in federal court after decades of skepticism. The most important precedent for these cases was a 1989 Supreme Court case that did not deal directly with LGBTQ+ rights: Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins.The court ruled in Price Waterhouse that sex stereotyping is a form of discrimination under Title VII, a provision that prohibits discrimination in employment based upon sex. Ann Hopkins was a cisgender, heterosexual woman who was denied a promotion at her accounting firm for being too masculine. At the time of the decision, and in the wake of the devastating decision for the LGBTQ+ movement in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), the case was not viewed as creating a strong precedential foundation for LGBTQ+ rights claims, especially claims based upon sexual orientation. Even in the context of gender identity, the connection was not made to the emerging movement for transgender rights until a decade later. In the 2000s, however, federal courts were consistently applying the case to protect transgender individuals.While not the result of coordinated litigation, nor initially connected to the LGBTQ+ rights movement, Price Waterhouse has been one of the most important and powerful precedents in recent years outside of the marriage equality cases. Before Bostock tells the story of how this accidental precedent evolved into such a crucial case for contemporary LGBTQ+ rights.Pierceson examines the groundbreaking Supreme Court decision of Bostock v. Clayton County through the legal path created by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the interpretation of the word sex over time. Focusing on history, courageous LGBTQ+ plaintiffs, and the careful work of legal activists, Before Bostock illustrates how the courts can expand LGBTQ+ rights when legislators are more resistant, and it adds to our understanding about contemporary judicial policymaking in the context of statutory interpretation.

The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case was the start of a long period of desegregation, but Brown did not give a roadmap for how to achieve this lofty goalit only provided the destination. In the years that followed, the path toward the fulfillment of this vision for school integration was worked out in the courts through the efforts of the NAACP Legal Defense organization and the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice. One of the major cases on this path was Lee v. Macon County Board of Education (1967).Revolution by Law traces the growth of Lee v. Macon County from a case to desegregate a single school district in rural Alabama to a decision that paved the way for ending state-imposed racial segregation of the schools in the Deep South. Author Brian Landsberg began his career as a young attorney working for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ in 1964, the year after the lawsuit that would lead to the Lee decision was filed.As someone personally involved in the legal struggle for civil rights, Landsberg writes with first-hand knowledge of the case. His carefully researched study of this important case argues that private plaintiffs, the executive branch, the federal courts, and eventually Congress each played important roles in transforming the South from the most segregated to the least segregated region of the United States. The Lee case played a central role in dismantling Alabamas official racial caste system, and the decision became the model both for other statewide school desegregation cases and for cases challenging conditions in prisons and institutions for mentally ill people. Revolution by Law gives readers a deep understanding of the methods used by the federal government to desegregate the schools of the Deep South.

Presents a panorama on a continental canvas: the Great Plains of North America, stretching from Texas to Alberta. Onto this surface the author lays the large features of regional practice in the harvesting and threshing of wheat during the days before the combined harvester.

In this sensitive and revealing biography, Joseph Herring explores Kenekuk's rise to power and astute leadership, as well as tracing the evolution of his policy of acculturation. This strategy proved highly effective in protecting Kenekuk's people against the increasingly complex, intrusive, and hostile white world.

In this collection of essays we find that tragedy and joy, victory and defeat, human fulfilment and human degradation are visible in roughly equal proportions in the story of the Americanization of the West: that the goals, both realistic and unrealistic, of one group, society, or culture are frequently pursued only at the expense of other groups.

This volume seeks to revive interest in the thought of Henry Adams. It extracts core ideas from his writings concerning both American political development and the course of world history and then shows their relevance to the contemporary longing for a democratic revival.

No Black American was more determined to realize the promise of American life following the Civil War, nor more frustrated by his inability to do so than John Lewis Waller. This book focuses on his career and his efforts to realize personal fulfillment in a racist world.

Argues persuasively that Washington's response to Argentine neutrality in World War II was based on internal differences than on external issues or economic motives. He explains how bureaucratic infighting within the US government, entirely irrelevant to the issues involved, shaped important national policy toward Argentina.

Lucius Polk Brown was a professional chemist who became a bureaucrat in the field of public health during the Progressive era. In focusing on Brown's struggles, achievements, and failures, Margaret Ripley Wolfe provides a comparative study of state and municipal health administrations and bureaucratic development.

Tells the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production - including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding - and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century.

The conservative thought of economists like Milton Friedman and Friedrick Hayek has provided the framework that undergirds nearly much of current US social-economic policy. Although much has been written about the economic theories of these economists, this study is the first to examine the political theory that underlies conservative economics.

Bringing together the works of six major American deists - Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine, Elihu Palmer, and Philip Frenau - and the Frechman Comte de Volney, whose writings influenced the American deists, Kerry Walters has created the fullest analysis yet of deism and rational religion in colonial and early America.

Contrary to conventional views, this work argues that Thoreau was one of America's most powerful and least understood political thinkers. He is shown to be a profound social critic, genuinely concerned with the moral foundations of public life.

In the 'little rebellion' that swept New York's Greenwich Village before World War I, few figures stood out more than Randolph Bourne. In reexamining Bourne's writings, Leslie Vaughan has located the roots of twenthieth-century radical thought while repositioning Bourne at the center of debates about the nature and limits of American liberalism.

William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life's energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost land. Homer Socolofsky's biography, the product of more than thirty years of research, provides a narrative and analysis of Scully's activities as an investor in both Ireland and the United States.

This study explores the evolution of Wilson's vision of a ""responsible government"", in which the separate executive and legislative powers would be integrated, his endeavours to establish it in the United States, and the legacy it has left behind.

Uses a new analytical mode - critical pluralism - to describe, explain, and evaluate variations in three key measures of democratic performance: responsible representation, complex equality, and principle-policy congruence. To test this framework and methodology, Paul Schumaker analyses 29 community issues that arose in Lawrence, Kansas.

A one-stop reference work that is a governors' hall of fame - a compendium of information about the 51 men who have held the chief executive post since the opening of the Kansas Territory in 1854.

In this first full-length study of Herbert Croly's political theory, Edward Stettner analyses Croly's writings and examines the events, experiences, and people who influenced Croly's thinking. In the process, he reveals Croly's significant influence on modern liberalism as classical liberal theory merged with progressive philosophy.

In this innovative study, Marietta Morrissey reframes the debate over slavery in the New World by focusing on the experiences of slave women. Rich in detail and rigorously comparative, her work illuminates the exploitation, achievements, and resilience of slave women in the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish colonies in the Caribbean.

Few American Presidents have been more respected than FDR. There has been a tendency to disregard those officials who disagreed with him. In relating the viewpoint of a distinguished American who opposed FDR's policies and tried to change them, this book provides a clearer understanding of politics and government in pre-World War II America.

Nineteenth-century psychologist and pragmatist philosopher William James is rarely considered a political theorist. This first book by a political theorist devoted exclusively to James's theory argues that political concerns were in fact central to his intellectual work.

Offers a thorough treatment of every important aspect of minority affairs during the Truman administration. The authors trace the developments in the quest for minority rights from 1945 to 1953, show the interrelatedness to the struggle waged by America's racial minorities, and assess the role of the Truman administration in that struggle.

In provocative essays Forrest McDonald and his wife, Ellen Shapiro McDonald, cover a range of the intellectual, political, military, and social history of the eighteenth century to present a picture of the age in which the US Constitution was crafted and commentary on developments that have caused government to stray from the Founders' principles.

Historians have largely ignored the western city; although a number of specialized studies have appeared in recent years, this volume is the first to assess the importance of the urban frontier in broad fashion. Lawrence Larsen studies the process of urbanization as it occurred in twenty-four major frontier towns.

Offers a collection of essays that insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. From a variety of perspectives contributors address both the technical problems and the politics of water management to provide a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation.

Examines the intricacies of shifting factions within the state majority party over a two decade period, from the Boss-Busters and political machines of the early 1900s through the formation of a new party behind Theodore Roosevelt in 1913.

In this provocative new interpretation of Frederick Jackson Turner's life, work, and legacy, Wilbur Jacobs challenges the views of traditionalists and views of traditionalists and revisionists alike.