Jay Price

Apr 26, 2017

Southwestern Syrians: Los Arabes of New Mexico: Compadres from a Distant Land

This article is written by Dr. Jay Price, Director, Public History Program at Wichita State University. His publications include Gateways to the Southwest: The Story of Arizona State Parks, Wichita, 1860-1930, Wichita’s Legacy of Flight, and El Dorado!: Legacy of an Oil Boom. Price’s work was featured twice on the Center’s blog in an article…

Aug 15, 2013

Lebanese in Kansas

Remember the post about the Lebanese in Kansas (here) where we featured the work of historian Dr. Jay Price? Well, he and his colleague, Sue Abdinnour wrote an article entitled, Family, Ethnic Entrepreneurship and the Lebanese of Kansas that is the cover article featured in Summer 2013 Great Plains Quarterly (GPQ), a scholarly journal housed…

Apr 29, 2013

Lebanese in Kansas, oh my!

When I started working on this project, among the first questions that people asked me included: Wait, there are Lebanese people in North Carolina? And when I answered affirmatively, they followed up with, Are there a lot of them? Questions like these, which I still receive, continue to teach me 2 lessons: First, we have…

Apr 22, 2013

We were at NCPH this year!

The National Council on Public History and the International Federation of Public History held its annual conference from April 17-20 in Ottawa, Ontario. This year’s theme, “Knowing your Public(s)-The Significance of Audiences in Public History” brought an interdisciplinary group to Canada’s capital to discuss questions of participatory projects, digital history, and shaping our work to reach a…