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Wintertime in Kansas
By Lauren Gray, Head of Reference The weather outside may be frightful, but we can still find ways to enjoy the winter season. Over the years, Kansans have learned to embrace our state’s harsh but...
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The Western Tuskegee
By: Ethan Anderson, Government Records ArchivistFor nearly 60 years the city of Topeka was home to one of the premier institutions for Black learning in the state of Kansas: the Kansas Technical...
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Abbie Bright
By: Lauren Gray, Head of ReferenceAbbie Bright is a name most of the Kansas Historical Society staff will recognize, if only because her writing was so extensive that she shows up in virtually every...
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Newspapers: Our National Conscience
By: Lauren Gray, Head of ReferenceUpon entering our Research Room at the State Archives, one of the first things you’ll see is row upon row of gray metal cabinets. Inside each of these cabinets are...
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Romance in the 1880s
By: Cordell Moats, Digital ArchivistToday we can communicate instantaneously with others all around the world, but in the 1880s communication relied heavily on letters such as the ones contained in the...
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