Kansas City Oasis

Musical guest: Swoovi (https://www.facebook.com/EverythingSwoovi) Community moment: Kevin Lamberd Featured speaker: Diane Mutti Burke, "On Slavery's Border" Diane Mutti Burke is Professor of History Department and Director of the Center for Midwestern Studies at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Educated at Dartmouth College and Emory University, she is a specialist on the Civil War Era South and Midwest. Her award-winning first book, On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865, is a bottom-up examination of slavery in Missouri. She also co-edited two collections of scholarship on the Missouri/Kansas border region, Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the...

October's book is "Deaths on Pleasant Street" by Giles Fowler. The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri's Swope Park, his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. The mystery pits the Swope matriarch against her disfavored son-in-law, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Charged with poisoning the Colonel and suspected of multiple other attempted murders, Dr. Hyde endures national media attention for this crime of the century....