BOOKSHELF
SICKENING SLAVERY: In his new book, "Epidemics and Enslavement," Paul Kelton, associate professor of history, examines the relationship between the Indian slave trade and the spread of old world diseases in the United States. Kelton concludes that natives had their most significant experience with new germs long after initial contacts and attributes the first region-wide epidemic of smallpox to the Indian slave trade.
KU HISTORY
On Oct. 16, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act into law. It was the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. KU registered 1,083 men in the Kansas Union. By the end of World War II, 276 KU men and women had lost their lives in the conflict. For more, visit
www.kuhistory.com
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