Richmond Chapter 13: The First World War and a "Return to Normalcy"

This chapter begins by mentioning the efforts of Kansas regiments in WWI. A good activity for this would be to study each of the regiments and plot the action they saw all within a WWI American History unit.
The rest of the chapter discusses Kansas in the post-war years. I found it interesting that Kansas has a history of taking issues to the extreme. For example, Richmond tells of the christening of the ship Kansas with water because the state was dry. Why is it that Kansas always seems to make national headlines by going a bit too far on 'moral' and other issues?