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it is a residence but it's also the headquarters of the wichita town and land company that came down here to create, shall we say the city of wichita. what was going on at the time is that we had a small military outpost, camp beecher that was stationed here. we had buffalo hunters and small trading post. we had freighting into oklahoma. we got a lot of economic activity going on, but we would like to capitalize on that. so some gentlemen from topeka decided that they would form a company to come down and create a town and so mr. munger was the most skilled person of that group. he c...

there were 12 seats in the house that were contested by -- that the republicans had said that they won that the populists were contesting, so today comes to convene in the house, and we have 12 people show up for 24 seats and that's not going to work and so they divide on party lines. basically it's a stalemate in the hourpse of representatives,o legislation is getting passed. there's this backlash against the populists coming out of this legislative war of 1893 that lewelling becomes a scapegoat for this and that was why he was not re-elected. he remains a populist at least until 18...

would be. but once we came here, we met the people. we started interacting with the community, with he started to feel the responsibility we had taken on. we were very fortunate to have a big team of people around us. we were fortunate in that we got to communicate with the community a lot, which was due to a process that the memorial foundation had put in place. they wanted to keep the community involved with this project and keep them up to date on everything that was happening. that was really good for us to feel like we were doing this as a partnership with the community. the wei...

from jamestown, the first english settlement in the united states. the long lost 1607 ft. was discovered in 1994 by william kelso, director of the jamestown rediscovery archaeological project. we'll hear his story and take a tour of the dig. we'll meet senior kurator blythe straw. join us saturday may 12th, beginning at 1:30 p.m. eastern. > coming up, dr. ira rutkow discusses how the civil war changed clinical surgery. he is an author of "bleeding blue and gray," "civil war surgery" and "the evolution of new york medicine." the new york academy of medicine hosted this 50-minute discu...