@article{829144,
      recid = {829144},
      author = {Stephens, Kate,},
      title = {Life at Laurel Town in Anglo-Saxon Kansas [electronic  resource] /},
      publisher = {Alumni Association of the University of Kansas,},
      address = {Lawrence, Kan. :},
      pages = {1 online resource ([6], 251 p.) :},
      year = {1920},
      note = {"Limited, large-paper edition."},
      abstract = {"Many readers will find her portrayal of blacks, Irish,  Jews, and immigrants generally disturbing. It is important  to realize that many Americans were themselves disturbed by  the flood of immigrants from southern and eastern European  countries that was altering the nature of traditional  American society. At the same time, Stephens compiled this  work in 1920, at a time when many Americans were  experiencing a sense of betrayal from learning of the  immense profits made by the 'Arms Merchants' from the First  World War. Many Americans, Stephens included, were swelling  a nativist and isolationist tide of sentiment. Kate  Stephens was a disillusioned woman and wrote Life in Laurel  Town in Anglo-Saxon Kansas to recall what her world had  been like. She remembered a Lawrence still peopled by the  men and women who had staked their lives in a bitter and  bloody struggle against slavery, and a University whose  function it was to call the young men and women of Kansas  to higher ideals rather than to entertain them and prepare  them for better-paying jobs. Beneath the rhetoric and  racism, Stephens was attempting to explain problems that we  are confronting once again: the decay of civic virtue, a  growing tendency to deny individual responsibility, the  decay of common ideals, and a loss of respect for a  heritage for which our forbears fought and died."--Lynn H.  Nelson, The Kansas Collection.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/829144},
}