Edward N. Tihen Historical Research Grants
The Edward N. Tihen Historical Research Grants are presented annually to non-academic researchers to access the collections of the Kansas Historical Society. Find out more about this grant program.
Past Recipients
2012 - Linda S. Johnston, project - Promise and Hope in the Kansas Territory
2012 - Madaleine J. Laird, project - Quilts as Textile History
2008 - Anne Hawkins, project - Underground Railroad in Kansas Territory
2007 - B. J. Alderman, project - History of Charles F. Himes' Letters
2007 - Linda Lewis, project - History of Early Burial Ground in Johnson County, Kansas
2006 - Kevin G. W. Olsen, project - History of Manhattan, Kansas
2005 - Mary Penner, project - Preserve the history of a Santa Fe trader named Henry O'Neill
2004 - Tisa M. Anders, project - The Life of Junius G. Groves (1859-1925)
2004 - Karen M. Heady, project - photographs and illustrations for a written history of Oskaloosa, Kansas
2003 - B. J. Alderman, Kansas City, Missouri, project - frontier lawman, James G. Weakley, and the mystery surrounding one of his prisoners
2003 - Mike Watowa, Lawrence, project - an annotated bibliography of material on the Kansas Folklore Society
1999 - Vera M. Hurst, project - Atchison county farm women, and Evelyn Reed, project - Dull Knife Raid in Comanche County
1997 - Robert Mossman, Tucson, Arizona; Carol Duer Cochran, Prairie Village; and Susan Croft, Herets, England
1995 - Dinah Faber, Baltimore; Leah Suzanne Hanson, Lawrence
