D-Day, 6 June 1944 D-Day Fact Sheet
Ike's D-Day Message; General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Order of the Day, June 6, 1944

Battleground for Freedom: The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier, Conference July 28-31, Topeka, Kansas

Kansas Humanities Council announces Kansas 150, a new statehood speakers bureau intended to strengthen community through the exploration of heritage, traditions, and ideas as part of the 150th Anniversary of Kansas Statehood in 2011.

The Kansas Humanities Council's Kansas 150 Speakers Bureau features presentations about Kansas' people, places, hopes, and dreams and explore both popular and little known aspects of Kansas history and culture, including cuisine, prehistoric oceans, lunch counter sit-ins, and folk art. Seventy-one (71) presentations are available now through December 31, 2011. In-state Kansas non-profits may book one free program in 2010, as funding allows. Go to KHC 2010 Grant Guidelines for more information.

Dr. Edward N. Tihen's Notes database from Wichita Newspapers, 1872-1982; Wichita State University

New: WWW-VL: US Agricultural History

New: Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, July 5, 1859, Topics in Kansas History, Kansas State Historical Society

Fred Harvey: Harvey Houses on the prairie: How a Kansas man pioneered the hospitality industry

Kansas Alliance of Professional Historic Performers and Ride into History

Boot Hill Gaming and Casinos: Gambling in the Old West

The Beginnings of Dodge City by Robert M. Wright, 1913

The Great War Comes to Kansas, letters exchanged in 1918 between Ward Griffing, while at Camp Funston, KS, and Minnie Frey, a one-room school house teacher, both natives of Manhattan, KS

Cowboy Blues: Early Black Music In The West & Minstrel and Medicine Shows -- Creating a Market for the Blues & The Weasels: Underground Success of A Kansas Rock Group & With Music the Ammunition -- Battles of the Bands in Wichita in the 1960s, all by Patrick J. O'Connor

19th Century Kansas Traveling Shows

Kansas Counties and Where They Got Their Names, Kansas County Name Etymologies

The Lawrence Massacre By A Band Of Missouri Ruffians Under Quantrell, August 21, 1863, History by Rev. Richard Cordley, 1865, KanColl

4th of July, 1890, Fort Dodge, Kansas Soldiers Home

Prairie Band Potawatomi Language Project, MP-3 Audios

Treaties Between the Potawatomi and the United States of America, 1789 - 1867

Buntline Special Reconsidered Original research

Prairie Fires on the Santa Fe Trail

Blizzards at Fort Dodge, KS

Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 Documents for the Study of American History, AmDocs

Abraham Lincoln Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, October 16, 1854 AmDocs

Kansas Historic Preservation Resources

Racing In Kansas | Artists In Kansas

Kansas Native American History

• KS Plains and Emigrant Tribes; Native Americans (Indians) , Old West Kansas
• Kansans: People of the Southwind Kansas Sights
• Kaw Nation
• Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas
• Pawnee Nation
• Citizen Potawatomi Nation
• Prairie Band Potawatomi
• Prairie Band Potawatomi Language Project
• Sac and Fox Nation
• Shawnee Nation History, Hodge's Handbook of Indians
• Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Keechi, Waco and Tawakonie)
• The Wyandot Nation of Kansas Native tribe
• Treaty with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache, July 27, 1853,
  Fort Atkinson, KS: Yale Law School Avalon Project
• Native American Storage Pits, from KSHS Kansas Archeology Week
• The Indian War of 1864, History by Eugene Ware, 1911, KanColl
• Southwest Pueblo Indian Pottery, Holmes Museum of Anthropology, WSU, Wichita
• Haskell Indian Nations Cultural Center & Museum, Lawrence, Kansas
• Center for Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
• WWW-VL: History: America Before The Europeans: Prediscovery Pre-Contact History
• WWW-VL: US History: Native American Bibliography

Kansas Explorer History

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado History, PBS The West
• Lewis & Clark In Kansas History
• Historical Kansas Maps: 1883, KanColl

Kansas Trail History

• Kansas Trails Old West Kansas
• Pioneer Trails From U.S. Land Surveys Kansas Heritage Group
• Chisholm Trail History, Kansas Heritage Group
• The Jones and Plummer Trail As It Crossed Meade County, Kansas
• The Mormon Road (Trail) in Kansas Territory, Pioneer Trails
• Northeast Kansas Trails, Pioneer Trails
• Oregon Trail History, Kansas Heritage Group
• Santa Fe Trail History, Kansas Heritage Group
• Santa Fe Trail Report, 1910-1911, KanColl
• Interactive Santa Fe Trail Kansas Heritage Group
• A Robbery on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827 Edited by James W. Covington, KHQ
• The Rath Trail, by Ida Ellen Rath, 1961, about Charles Rath, KanColl
• Great Western Trail 1874-1886: Texas to Dodge City

Kansas Fort History

• Frontier Army Museum, Ft. Leavenworth
• Ft. Riley History Museum, Junction City
• Kansas Forts Ft. Leavenworth to Ft. Dodge, KS: Old West Kansas
• Fort Atkinson on the Santa Fe Trail, 1850-1854, by Leo E. Oliva, KanColl
• Kansas Forts During the Civil War, by William C. Pollard, Jr., Old West Kansas
• Fort Larned Santa Fe Trail Research Site
• Fort Dodge Santa Fe Trail Research Site
• General Grenville M. Dodge
• "Fort Dodge," from Early Ford County, by Ida Ellen Rath
• Defense of the Kansas Frontier 1868-1869, by Marvin H. Garfield, KHQ, 1932
• Military Posts in Kansas Before 1900, Pioneer Trails
• Some Famous Kansas Frontier Scouts, by Paul I. Wellman, Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1932

Kansas Territorial & Civil War History

• Territorial Kansas Online history links, KS Heritage Group
• Song Of The Kansas Emigrants, Words by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1854
• Jayhawkers and Red Legs, 1861-1865, Historical Research and Analysis
• Kansas Bogus Legislature, 1855
• Potatawatomie Massacre, 12 June 1856
• What John Brown Did In Kansas; Battle of Osawatomie, 1856
• The Pottawatomie Killings [1856], Statement of James Townsley
  Republican Citizen, Paola, Kansas, 20 Dec 1879
• John Brown, Abolitionist: by David Reynolds, 2005
• The Lawrence Massacre [1863], History by Rev. Richard Cordley, 1865, KanColl
• Abraham Lincoln, 1st Inaugural Address, 1861
• Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 19 November, 1863
• Quantrill's Raid Lawrence CyberVillage [archive.org copy]
• Eyewitness Reports Of Quantrill’s Raid, Letters of Sophia Bissell & Sidney Clarke (edited by Fred N. Six), KSHS [.pdf file]
• The Mine Creek Battlefield On October 25th, 1864, Union and Confederate forces met in Linn County, Kansas in one of the largest cavalry battles of the Civil War. Society of Public Historicans, WSU
• Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address 1865
• Adjutant General Report State of Kansas, 1861-1865, KSGenWeb
• Germans in the Civil War, (I goes to fight mit Sigel),
  by Dr. William Keel, University of Kansas, Lawrence
• Kansas Forts During the Civil War by William C. Pollard, Jr.
• Kansas Prisoners of War (POW's) at Camp Ford, TX, 1863-1865
• Nicodemus, Kansas African-Americans in Kansas history
• Kansas,the 'Soldier State' (post-Civil War veterans), by Dr. Bruce Kahler, Bethany College, Lindsborg [.pdf file]
• WWW-VL: History: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1860
• WWW-VL: History: United States: Civil War History 1861-1865

Kansas Pioneer History

• Wheelbarrow Emigrant of 1850, Pioneer Trails
• Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life, by Sara T.L. Robinson, 1856, KanColl
• William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Buffalo Bill Grave and Museum, Golden, Colorado
• Hans Brietman Ballads, Graham's Magazine, 1869
• Breitman In Kansas (1869?)
• Old West Ranching in the Early Days, by Robert M. Wright
• Charles Rath, Buffalo Hunter, Old West Pioneer, Dodge City, KS
• "Kansas Diary," by Mary Goe Hankins, 1871, Kansas History Web Sites
• African Americans and the Old West
• Kansas Gunfighters KS lawmen, outlaws: Old West Kansas
• William Stafford's Kansas
• Cimarron Chronicles, Saga of the Open Range, by Carrie and M.W. (Doc) Anshutz.
  Meade County, Kansas history from pioneers.

Kansas Cattle Town History

• Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest, McCoy's Historic Sketches, 1874, KanColl
• Kansas Cowtowns KS cowboys, cattletowns, pioneers: Old West Kansas
• Dodge City, Cowboy Capital , by Robert M. Wright, Town President, 1913
• Robert M. Wright, 1840-1915, biography
• The Beginnings of Dodge City, by Robert M. Wright
• Populating Boot Hill, by Robert M. Wright
• Dodge City: "The Beautiful, Bibulous Babylon of the Frontier," by Robert Wright
• Old West Photograph Gallery, Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City
• Dodge City History, the "Cowboy Capital" & "Queen of the Cowtowns" Kansas Old West
• Those Dodge Citians At It Again, Dodge City Times, 1877
• H.B. (Ham) Bell, Deputy U.S. Marshal, Pioneer Sheriff, Mayor of Dodge City and Grand Old Man of the Southwest
• Frederick Zimmermann, pioneer Dodge City gunsmith
• A Cowboy in Dodge City, by Andy Adams, 1882
• Dodge City Peace Commission, 1883 Old West photograph of lawmen including Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Luke Short; original, FCHS, Dodge City
• Bat Masterson November 26, 1853 – October 25, 1921; Biography
• "Big Nose" Kate Elder, biography of "Doc" Holliday's long-time friend
• Battle of Adobe Walls, June 1874, from The Rath Trail FCHS, Dodge City
• Ford County Historical Society Dodge City
• Mueller-Schmidt House (1881) Museum Old West Cattleman's Mansion, Dodge City, QT Virtual Tour
• Kansas Cowboy Symposium Links
• Kansas Counties: Where they got their names, from "Admire's Political and Legislative Hand-Book for Kansas," 1891
• The Gray County Seat War, Brendan M. Lynch
• "The Bull Fight at Dodge,", by Kirke Mecham, Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1933
• Churches in Old Dodge City
• Windthorst Church: Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Windthorst

Kansas Railroad History

• Kansas Railroads: Old West Kansas
• Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Route guide, Old West Kansas
• Harvey Houses Hotels, Lunchrooms, Restaurants in the Old West
• Orphan Trains of Kansas, between 1867 and 1930, some 5000-6000 children were placed in Kansas homes, KanColl

Kansas 20th Century History

• The Populist Party, 1896, [In 1890 Populists won control of the Kansas state legislature, and Kansan William Peffer became the party's first U.S. Senator]
• WWW-VL: US Populism History Agrarian Revolt, Black Populism, Grange, Temperance, Prohibition
• Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History Embracing Events, 1912, KanColl
• The Landon Center, a political site focusing on the first 50 years of the 20th century, 1900 -1950 in Alf Landon's Independence house
• "Kansas History as Published in the Press", Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1934
• "What's the Matter With Kansas", by William Allen White, August 15, 1896
• Kansas Listed Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places
• May Williams Ward, Poet, 1882-1969, Osawatomie, Belpre & Wellington, Washburn University
• Kansas Breweries, by Cindy Higgins, Kansas History, Spring 1993
• Crossing Boundaries African American and American Culture; Kansas Humanities Council
• "Langston Hughes in Lawrence: Photographs and Biographical Resources," by Denise Low (Kansas Poet Laureate) & T.F. Pecore Weso Kansas History Web Sites
• Langston Hughes Biography Kansas African-American Poet and Writer: KHC
• The Poor Farm Revisited, by Don Darling, 1989, Rural Heritage
• Dr. James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball, history, photograph (at University of Kansas), Kansas Heritage Group
• "Wilt the Stilt" Chamberlain, University of Kansas basketball great, KU History Galleries, Lawrence
• Kansas Penitentiary, 1913 Kansas Heritage Group
• Pioneers Audrey and Fred Plymell, by Charley Plymell
• Dorothy's Kansas Memories, by Dorothy Painter Rush, Barclay (1908 - 1920s)
  Kansas History Web Sites
• Dust Bowl History Black Sunday, April 14, 1935
• D-Day, 6 June 1944, Normandy, France Dwight D. Eisenhower Library [Operation Overlord]
Ike's D-Day Message; General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Order of the Day, June 6, 1944
• Mamie Doud Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas Heritage
• "The Mythical Jayhawk" by Kirke Mechem, Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1944, KanColl
• William Edgar Stafford Collection, Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University
• William Stafford: Genius In Camouflage by Kansas Poet Laureate Jonathan Holden
• The Preacher's Kid, by Dr. C. Robert Haywood, Topeka
• A Kansan in South Chicago, Stories by Lynn H. Nelson, Lawrence
• The Black Experience and the Blues in 1950s Wichita, by P.J. O'Connor
• Folk Music Clubs In Wichita: Melody And Protest, by Pat O'Connor
• Moody's Skidrow Beanery: Moody Connell, Wichita 1960s, Hoboes and Beatniks,
  by Pat O'Connor, Wichita, Photographs: Beats In Kansas
• A Blackout Tavern Study in 1960s Folklore, by Pat O'Connor, Beats In Kansas
• Reading Roadside Kansas, Dr. Jay Price, History Dept., Wichita State University
• "Baseball In Kansas, 1867-1940" by Harold C. Evans, Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1940, KanColl
• Jackie Stiles, WNBA Basketball Star, Claflin
• Kansas Aviation History Wings Over Kansas
• Evolution In Kansas Intelligent Design, Creationism Beliefs, Evolution Theory
• "Gunsmoke" 50th Anniversary 1955-2005
• Harold Ensley, The Sportsman's Friend, RIP 28 August 2005, NPR
• Gordon Parks, Native Kansan (Ft. Scott), RIP 7 March 2006
• Greensburg, KS Tornado May 4, 2007

Kansas History Books On-line

• KanColl Books, First full-text Kansas history on-line library, established 1993
• Cutler, William G. "History of the State of Kansas" (1883)
• Dodge City, The Cowboy Capital and the Great Southwest in The Days of The Wild Indian, the Buffalo, the Cowboy, Dance Halls, Gambling Halls, and Bad Men; by Robert M. Wright, "Plainsman, Explorer, Scout, Pioneer, Trader and Settler", 1913
• Early Ford County (Kansas), by Ida Ellen Rath, 1964
• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story Of Col. William F. Cody "Buffalo Bill", As Told By His Sister Helen Cody Wetmore
• The Rath Trail, by Ida Ellen Rath, 1961 [Biography of Charles Rath, Indian trader, buffalo hunter, and organizer of early-day towns and trading posts. Great interviews with last of the pioneers.]
• Went To Kansas; Being A Thrilling Account Of An Ill-fated Expedition To That Fairy Land, and its Sad Results, by Mrs. Miriam Davis Colt, 1862 [unique woman's view]
• Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas by James C. Malin, Professor of History, University of Kansas, 1944 [book that established hard winter wheat throughout the world]

Kansas General History

• Artists In Kansas Kansas Art Centers, Art Galleries, Art Museums, Art Events
• Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland: KS Beatniks
• Beats Photograph Gallery
• Carrie: A Full-Text Electronic Library, Lynn H. Nelson
• Center for Great Plains Studies Emporia State University, Emporia
• Center for Kansas Studies, Washburn University, Topeka
• Cooking In Kansas Cookbooks, recipes, pioneer and cowboy food
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Center, Abilene Kansas Heritage Group
• History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler, 1883, KanColl
• In Memory of Kansas Photographs, Kansas Heritage Group
• Journal of the West [new address at subscription site]
• Kansas Cattle Towns Coalition
• Kansas Collection KanColl, Full-text books on-line
• Kansas Community Networks, KS Counties and Towns
• Kansas County Name Etymologies
• Kansas Interactive Genealogy
• Kansas Timeline
• Kansas Museum of History Topeka
• Kansas Museums Association
• KMA: Federal Funding Formula for Museums Initiative Resources
• KSU Institute for Military History & 20th Century Studies, Manhattan
• KU History Galleries, Lawrence
• Map of Kansas Literature, Washburn University, Topeka
• Mountain-Plains Museums Association
• OldWestHistory.Net G.S. McLelland
• Racing In Kansas Kansas Racers, Kansas Races, KS Race Tracks
• Women of the West Online Autry Museum
• WWW-VL: Wind Power In Kansas
• Sources About Kansas History, Center for Kansas Studies, Washburn University, Topeka

Kansas History Resources

Kansas Museums, Kansas Genealogy, Kansas Libraries

Kansas Heritage Group

Old West, Art, Racing, Cooking, Territorial Kansas

WWW-VL: History:
Kansas History Gateway

Documents for the Study of American History, AmDocs

American West History

United States History

WWW-VL: 1930s History

WWW-VL: Spanish History

WWW-VL: US Art Museums

WWW-VL: USA History Maps

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