The Governor's Records
The archives of Kansas governors’ records held by the State Archives at the Kansas Historical Society are a great resource for primary sources on important issues in Kansas history. The Kansas State...
View ArticleTeacher workshop
The Kansas Memory two-day teacher workshop is sponsored by Security Benefit. June 16 - 17 - Kansas Historical Society, Topeka June 23 - 24 - ESSDACK, Hutchinson - Learn how to use primary sources...
View ArticleSheldon Edition, The Topeka Daily Capital
If Jesus were publisher and editor of a daily, twentieth-century newspaper, what would that paper look like? In March of 1900 in Topeka, Kansas, congregational minister Charles Sheldon decided to find...
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Two new video selections are now available on Kansas Memory. Bob Beatty, Political Science Department, Washburn University, produced both videos as part of the Kansas Governors Recorded History and...
View ArticleCarry Nation papers
Wielding bricks, hammers, and hatchets, Carry Nation and her brigade of prohibitionist “smashers” attacked illegal saloons in an effort to build a movement against such "joints." In Kiowa, Wichita,...
View ArticleHenry Worrall music collection
Kansas seems an unlikely place to discover a link between the refined parlor music of the 19th century and the country and blues guitar styles of the rural South in the early 20th. But in 2006,...
View ArticleThe Kansas State Journal
The year 1861 was an eventful time for the state of Kansas and the nation. The April 18th issue of the Kansas State Journal proclaimed the start of the Civil War, and at that time, Kansas had been a...
View ArticleOver There: World War I Soldiers' Letters
A number of World War I Kansas soldiers' letters and photographs have recently been added to Kansas Memory. The letters were from returning veterans (primarily members of the 35th and 89th Infantry...
View ArticleDoctor Brinkley
In the annals of Kansas history no episode better proves the axiom “truth is stranger than fiction” than the bizarre story of Dr. John Brinkley. From goat glands to country music, Doctor Brinkley...
View ArticleFamily History on TV?
Posted by museum curator Laurel FritzschNBC and PBS have taken a risk that people are interested in family history. NBC’s new show “Who Do You Think You Are?” traces the family histories of TV and...
View ArticleTake Our Fair Posters Tour
Summer means festivals of music, food, and culture. And there is no older blend of those than Kansas Fairs. I love the sights, sounds, experiences, and smells of the fair. The images on Fair...
View ArticleCyrus K. Holliday
Recognized as one of the top 25 Notable Kansans, Cyrus K. Holliday and his claim to fame may be less well known to most Kansans than his counterparts also honored on the list. Cyrus Kurtz Holliday...
View ArticleIrish Immigration
Posted by museum curator Laurel Fritzsch:In 1870 the majority of immigrants to Kansas came from the British Isles, and particularly Ireland. In 1871 Thomas Butler, an Irish priest in Leavenworth,...
View ArticleGovernor Hayden interviews
Former Kansas Governor Mike Hayden discusses his childhood, military service, and Kansas politics in two interviews conducted by Bob Beatty and Mark Peterson of the Political Science Department,...
View ArticleCharlotte Perkins Gilman and Kansas suffrage
Between 1896 and 1900, the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association (KESA) published four poems and one article by writer and women’s rights advocate Charlotte Perkins Stetson (later Gilman) in their...
View ArticleWolf photo collection
At the end of the nineteenth century, photographer Henry L. Wolf created a photo portrait of Southwest Kansas that documents the farming culture in and around Garden City in Finney County. From rural...
View ArticleJohn Brown, Jr. collection
A recently acquired collection of letters written by John Brown, Jr. to his wife Wealthy Brown is now available on Kansas Memory. The thirty-three letters dating from 1861-1863 document his service as...
View ArticleOver There: World War I Soldiers' Letters
A number of World War I Kansas soldiers' letters and photographs have recently been added to Kansas Memory. The letters are from returning veterans (primarily members of the 35th and 89th Infantry...
View ArticleBill Nye
No, not "the Science Guy." Born Edgar Wilson Nye in 1850, he used the pseudonym "Bill Nye" long before the Bill Nye we know today (YouTube). Edgar Wilson Nye was a well-known American journalist and...
View ArticleExoduster letters
In 1879 and 1880, freedmen (former slaves) from the South sent Kansas Governor John St. John around 1,000 letters seeking information on a possible migration to Kansas; a migration generally known as...
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