Jay Price
Volunteer History commentatorJay M. Price is chair of the department of history at Wichita State University, where he also directs the public history program.
His works include Temples for a Modern God: Religious Architecture in Postwar America, Gateways to the Southwest: The Story of Arizona State Parks, Wichita, 1860-1930, and El Dorado!: Legacy of an Oil Boom. He has co-authored Wichita's Legacy of Flight, Cherokee Strip Land Rush, Wichita’s Lebanese Heritage, and Kansas: In the Heart of Tornado Alley.
He has served on the boards of the Kansas Humanities Council and the Kansas State Historic Sites Board of Review. He is currently on the board of the Wichita Sedgwick County Historical Museum and the University Press of Kansas.
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A new law makes it easier for people to sue the government for illnesses from contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. The legal action could become one of the largest mass civil cases in history.
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The Army is thousands of enlistees short for the recruiting year ending in September, so it is trying something else: prep courses for written test scores and weight loss programs to make the grade.
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In the U.S., racing on gravel roads has become the dominant form of bike racing in just a few years. Organizers have prioritized diversity and inclusiveness in a way that other sports have not.
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In North Carolina, key buildings at a 1940s-era segregated Marine base are being restored. The structures at Montford Point, now part of Camp Lejeune, were used by the first Black Marines.
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A military commission has recommended new names for nine bases named after Confederate leaders. Two years ago, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Congress mandated the name changes.
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The Pentagon is testing hundreds of military sites around the country for contamination from chemicals known by the acronym PFAS, which have been linked to health problems such as cancer.
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U.S. troops from the 82nd Airborne Division have been boarding planes bound for Eastern Europe. This comes amidst escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia.
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Nearly seven decades ago two Black women, bound together by military service, helped end discrimination on interstate buses. Their often overlooked story in civil rights history is getting attention.
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Army bases across the South will be stripped of names honoring the Confederacy. A federal commission has begun that job — and now potential new names are beginning to emerge.
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In 2009, reporter Jay Price met Chris Goeke in Afghanistan. The 23-year old was killed in battle months later. Now, with that war over, Price set out to to learn more about him.