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Sunday Afternoon at the Museum (SAM)
Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: “Re-membering the 1870s Migration,” John Thiesen, Co-director of Libraries / Archivist, Mennonite Library & Archives at Bethel College
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesThe popular understanding of the immigration of Mennonites from the Russian Empire to the Plains states in the 1870s has a rather weak relationship to the actual events of the 1870s. It is only natural that a popularized explanation of the story would be very abbreviated and rather formulaic, compared to a more in-depth examination. […]
Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: “Stories of Mexican Migration to Kansas,” Valerie Mendoza, Historian and Lecturer, Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesMore information to come!