Kansas Research Topics and Resources List
Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History
2015/2016
This is a list of topics and resources for this year’s National History Day theme Exploration, Encounter,
Exchange in History. Choosing one of the topics below will not increase or decrease a student’s chances of
doing well at a History Day contest.
Encountering Political Change: Women in Politics (Governor Joan Finney, Susan Madora Salter, Nancy (Landon)
Kassebaum Baker)
Susanna Madora Salter – First Woman Mayor by Monroe Billington
First woman mayor in the U.S. 1860-1961
First woman governor of Kansas
Nancy (Landon) Kassebaum Baker
University of Kansas Explorers: Lewis Lindsay Dyke and Chancellor Francis H. Snow
Personal Papers of Lewis L. Dyche
University of Kansas Chancellor's Office records
Cultural Encounters & Exchanges: Immigrants (Germans, Swedes, Mexicans, Asians, Mennonites, French, etc.), the Silk
Road
German Settlers in Kansas
Swedes in Kansas
Mexican Americans in Kansas
Cultural Encounters: U.S. Wars and Kansas (Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish American War, World Wars, etc.)
Civil War
Indian Wars
Spanish American War
Cultural Encounters: Whites and Native Americans (Indian missions/orphanages, reservations, Haskell University,
Cherokee Strip, Treaties, etc.)
Medicine Lodge Treaty
William Clark, US Superintendent for Indian Affairs
Encounters with Nature: Natural Disasters in Kansas (floods, tornados, Dust Bowl, etc.)
Forces of Nature
Dust Bowl
1951 Flood
Exploration & Encounters Along the Trails in Kansas
Oregon-California Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Exploration in Science by Kansans
Dr. Clyde Tombaugh
Dr. H. P. Cady
Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum
Exploring Africa: Osa and Martha Johnson
Safari Museum
Exploring African-American Culture: Kansas Ties to the Harlem Renaissance, the Blues, Jazz, and Rock and Roll, ect.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Aaron Douglas
Langston Hughes
Gordon Parks
Jazz
Medical Explorations: 1912 Kansas Influenza Epidemic, Dr. John Brinkley, Dr. Karl Menninger, Samuel J. Crumbine, etc.
Samuel Jay Crumbine letter, 1946
Personal Papers of Richard Schiefelbusch
Personal Papers of Fritz Heider
Menninger Archives
Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange: the Kansas Exoduster Movement
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
Nicodemus
Quivira
Exploring New Political Ideas
Temperance
New Deal
Populism
“Sockless” Jerry Simpson
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Governor John P. St. John
Exploring Kansas Ties to New Modes of Transportation
Airplanes
Railroads
Walter P. Chrysler
Kansas Highway System
Encountering Civil Rights: the Integration of Public Accommodations (Ronald Walters and the Wichita Sit-ins)
Political Encounters: US Foreign Police and the Near/Middles East (Eisenhower Administration)
Spanish Explorers in Kansas: Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján
New Perspectives on the West
History.com Resources
Silas Soule and the Sand Creek Massacre: Encountering Resistance to the Truth
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre
Women’s Suffrage Movement in Kansas
Mamie Alexander Boyd Papers
Lucy Browne Johnston
Laura Mitchell Johns
Feminist Movement in Kansas
Personal Papers of Camilla Cave
Kansans for ERA
Mamie Alexander Boyd Papers
Feminist Movement at the University Kansas
February Sisters (call number: 67/126)
Commission on the Status of Women (call number: 67/48)
Personal Papers of Emily Taylor
Emily Taylor Resource Center (call number: 76/3)
Marilyn Stokstad
Personal Papers of Carol Shankel
Encountering Civil Rights: the Integration of Kansas Schools
Brown v. Board of Education and the Integration of Kansas Schools
Brown v. Bd Oral History Project (good sources for individual leaders)
Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research
Brown v. Bd National Historic Site
KAKE-TV News Archives
Eisenhower Administration
Civil Rights, School Integration
Western University at Quindaro
http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/western-university/15492
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_University_%28Kansas%29
http://www.kansastravel.org/kansascitykansas/quindaro.htm
Doris Kerr Larkins papers
Sumner High School, Kansas City
Sumner High School records
Papers of Dorothy Hodge Johnson, Dowdal Davis, Jr., and John A. Hodge
Kansas Vocational School
Elijah Tinnon v. The Board of Education of Ottawa
Knox v. The Board of Education of Independence
Reynolds v. The Board of Education of Topeka
Cartwright v. The Board of Education of Coffeyville
Rowles v. The Board of Education of Wichita
Edwana Denning Collins Papers
Judge Robert Morton Collection
Williams v. The Board of Education of Parsons
Woolridge v. The Board of Education of Galena
Thurman-Watts v. The Board of Education of Coffeyville
Wright v. The Board of Education of Topeka
Graham v. The Board of Education of Topeka
Webb v. School District No. 90, South Park Johnson County
Exploring the Issue of Water Rights in Kansas
Patricia DuBose Duncan papers
A. E. Howse Papers
Doris and Leona Velen Tuttle Creek Dam Collection
Equal Education Rights for American Indians and Haskell Indian College
Col. John Gideon Haskell Biographical Sketch
Indian Education at Haskell Institute, 1884-1937 by Loretta Mary Granzer (collection)
William Porter Ames papers, 1879-1964
Fighting For Equal Rights for Gays, Lesbians and Transgendered People of Kansas
Queers and Allies/Lawrence Gay Liberation Front/Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas/LesBiGay Services (67/66)
Papers of Bruce McKinney
YWCA of Wichita Collection
Christopher Isherwood Papers
Exploring New Territories: New England Emigrant Aid Company
Guide to the New England Emigrant Aid Company Collection Papers
Personal Papers of Charles Robinson
Amos Adams Lawrence Correspondence
Gerrit Smith Collection
General Research Resources for Kansas Topic Selection
Dole Institute of Politics History Day Resources
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Student Resources
Friends University Historical Quaker Photos
Kansas Census Records
Kansas Digitized Newspapers / Chronicling America
Kansas Historical Markers
Kansas Historical Society
Kansas Memory
Kansas Library Card (free access to select online databases)
Kansas State Library
Leonard H. Axe Library (PSU)
Richard L. D. & Marjorie J. Morse Dept. of Special Collections (KSU)
Spencer Research Library (KU)
Territorial Kansas Online
Western Trials Project
WSU Dept. of Special Collections
The Library of Congress
National Archives and Records Administration
Public Broadcasting System (PBS)