Kansas History Encyclopedia

These brief sketches cover people, places, and events in Kansas history.

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   M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    Y


  • 1930 Census
  • 34th Star on the U.S. Flag

    • A

  • Ackert, Dr. James E.
  • Adair, Florella
  • African American Newspapers
  • African American Teachers: The Irony of Brown v. Board of Education
  • Allen, Henry J.
  • American Indian Place Names
  • Amrine, Milton F.
  • Angell, Charlie, Sr.
  • Anthony, Susan B.
  • Army City
  • Asian Americans
  • Astronauts from Kansas
  • Aviation
    • Portrait of John R. Brinkley by Kansas artist Herschel Logan.

    B

  • Basketball for Girls and Women
  • Battle Flags
  • Battle of Arickaree
  • Battle of Mine Creek
  • Beech, Walter H.
  • Beech, Walter H. and Olive Ann
  • Beecher Bibles
  • Big Brutus
  • Blizzard of 1886
  • Blount, William
  • Borglum, Gutzom
  • Bosin, Blackbear
  • Bowyer, Clint
  • Brewer, David J.
  • Brinkley, John R. "Doc"
  • Brooks, Gwendolyn
  • Brown, Henry
  • Brown, John
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Bruce, Blanche K.
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Burch, Rousseau Angelus
  • Burnett, Abram
  • Butler, Pardee


    • C

  • Capper, Arthur
  • Carney, Frank and Dan
  • Carver, George Washington
  • Cedar Crest
  • Cessna, Clyde
  • Chamberlain, Wilt
  • Chiles, Nick
  • Chase County Courthouse
  • Cholera
  • Christmas in Kansas
  • Christmas Past
  • Christmas Time
  • Christmas Trees
  • Chrysler, Walter P.
  • Clayton, Wilbur Dorsey "Buck"
  • Coal Strike
  • Coleman, W. C.
  • Community Bands
  • Constitution Hall State Historic Site
  • Corbett, Thomas P.
  • Corbett, Thomas P. "Boston"
  • Cottonwood Ranch State Historic Site
  • Country Schools
  • County Fights
  • Crawford, Nelson Antrim
  • Crumbine, Samuel
  • Cuartelejo, El
  • Cunningham, Glenn
  • Curry, John Steuart
  • Curtis, Charles


    • D

  • Davis, Frank Marshall
  • Denny, John
  • Dinsmoor, Samuel P.
  • Dodge City
  • Dodge City Cowboy Band
  • Douglas, Aaron
  • Deuell, Peggy Hull
  • Dust Bowl Days in Kansas


    • E

  • Earhart, Amelia
  • Effigy Head
  • Eisenhower, Dwight David
  • Milton EisenhowerEisenhower, Milton
  • Engle, Joe
  • Exaggerated Postcards


    • F

  • Fairfax, Alfred
  • Fairs in Kansas
  • Farnsworth, Martha
  • Farnsworth, Martha diary
  • Fazel, Reverend John
  • First Kansas Colored Infantry
  • First Newspaper in Kansas
  • First Territorial Capitol
  • Fletcher, Arthur
  • Fort de Cavagnial
  • Fort Hays State Historic Site
  • Fourth of July
  • Fuller, Lorenzo, Jr.
  • Free Fairs
  • Funston, Frederick


    • G

  • Gage, Robert Merrell
  • Games
  • Gardening in Kansas
  • Gardner, Alexander
  • Gardner, Alexander
  • Gas Well
  • Ghost Stories
  • Good Roads Movement
  • Goodnow House State Historic Site
  • Grand Army of the Republic
  • Granddaughters of White Plume
  • Grasshopper Plague of 1874
  • Gray, Georgia Neese Clark
  • Great White Buffalo
  • Gregg, John A.
  • Grinter Place State Historic Site
  • Grisnik, Marijana
  • Groves, Junius


    • H

  • Halbe, L. W.
  • Haldeman-Julius, Marcet and Emanuel
  • Halloween
  • Harbord, James G.
  • Harman, Moses
  • Harvey, Fred
  • Hawkins, Coleman
  • Hawley, Steve
  • Hatke, Mary Chaney
  • Hertzler, Arthur Emanuel
  • Hibbs, Ben
  • Highway Patrol in Kansas
  • Hispanics in Kansas
  • Hockaday, F. W. "Woody"
  • Holiday Foods
  • Hollenberg Pony Express Station State Historic Site
  • Hope, Clifford, Sr.
  • Holt, Nora
  • Hughes, Langston
  • Hughes, Langston
  • Hyer Boot Company


    • I

  • Ingalls, John J.
  • Inge, William


    • J

  • Jackrabbit Drives
  • Jardine, William
  • Jerman, Ed C.
  • Jessye, Eva
  • Jewish Farming Communities
  • John Brown Museum State Historic Site
  • Johnson, Martin and Osa
  • Johnson, Walter "Big Train"
  • Johnston, William Agnew and Lucy Browne
  • Jones, Charles Jesse "Buffalo"
  • Jump, Gordon


    • K

  • Kafir Corn
  • Kansa-Pawnee War
  • Kansas Day
  • Kansas Department of Agriculture
  • Kansas Flag
  • Kansas Historical Society
  • Kansas National Forest
  • Kansas State Capitol
  • Kansas Turnpike
  • Kaw Mission State Historic Site
  • Kelly, Emmett
  • Kenton, Stan
  • Kilby, Jack


    • L

  • Landon, Alfred M.
  • Lease, Mary Elizabeth
  • Leavenworth Soldiers Home
  • Lewis and Clark in Kansas
  • Lewis, Delano
  • Lieurance, Thurlow
  • Lincoln, Abraham
  • Longren, Albin K.
  • Longren, Dolly Trent
  • Love, Nat
  • Lytle, Lutie

    • M

  • McCabe, Edward
  • McCarter, Margaret Hill
  • Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthyMcCarthy, Kathryn O'Loughlin
  • McCuish, John B.
  • McDaniel, Hattie
  • Maneval, Rex
  • Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site
  • Massacre at Walnut Creek
  • Masterson, William B.
  • Mathewson, William E.
  • Menninger Clinic
  • Mercí Train
  • Miller, Solomon
  • Milling and Grain Storage
  • Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site
  • Monroe, Lilla Day
  • Monuments in Kansas
  • Morehead, Kansas
  • Movie Censors in Kansas


    • N

  • Naismith, James
  • Nation, Carry
  • Iowa and Sac & Fox Mission State Historic Site
  • Nichols, Clarina
  • Nicodemus
  • Norman No. 1


    • O

  • Odd and Unusual Collections
  • Oregon Trail


    • P

  • Paddleford, Clementine
  • Parker, Charlie
  • Parks, Gordon
  • Patent Medicines
  • Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site
  • Pawnee Rock State Historic Site
  • Pawnee Sacred Bundle
  • Penokee Figure
  • Peterson, Frank E.,Jr.
  • Petroglyphs in Kansas
  • Pitt, Nancy Louise
  • Pitts, Riley Leroy
  • Pleasant Valley Gang
  • Pledge of Allegiance
  • Pony Express
  • Populist Party
  • Prairie Dell Farm
  • Pratt Family


    • Q

  • Quantrill, William Clarke


    • R

  • Rainmakers
  • Reader, Samuel J.
  • Reid, Albert T.
  • Reynolds, James
  • Ripley, John
  • Rogers, General Bernard
  • Romaine, "Painless"
  • Runnymede
  • Runyon, Damon
  • Rural Electrification
  • Ryun, Jim


    • S

  • Salter, Susanna Madora
  • Sanders, Barry
  • Sandzen, Sven Birger
  • Santa Fe Railway
  • Santa Fe Trail
  • Sayers, Gale
  • Sayers, William L.
  • Scott, Elisha, Sr.
  • Seaton, Fred
  • Seventh U.S. Cavalry
  • Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site
  • Sheldon, Charles Monroe
  • Sheldon Kindergarten
  • Silkville
  • Sinclair, Henry Ford
  • Singleton, Benjamin "Pap"
  • Smith Automobile Company
  • Smith, Jedediah
  • Softball
  • Soule's Folly
  • Spanish American War
  • Springfield Flag
  • Stach School
  • Stafford, Terry
  • State Archives & Library
  • Steamboating
  • Stinson, Julia
  • Stout, Rex
  • Sutherland, Earl
  • Switzer, Veryl


    • T

  • Taylor, Lucy Hobbs
  • Thanksgiving
  • Tombaugh, Clyde
  • Tornados
  • Twelve Mile Creek


    • U

  • Udall Tornado
  • Udden Chain Mail
  • Uncle Sam
  • Underwood, Elmer, and Underwood, Bert
  • Uniontown
  • University of Kansas' First Basketball Game


    • V

  • Vernon, William T.
  • Volga-German Immigrants


    • W

  • Waller, John Lewis
  • Ware, Eugene Fitch
  • Wells, Seth G.
  • Western Kansas Gold
  • Wheat
  • William Allen WhiteWhite, William Allen
  • Willard, Jess
  • William Allen White House State Historic Site
  • Wilson, Thomas Bayne
  • Wind Wagons
  • Wizard of Oz, The
  • Women of Kansas Territory
  • Woodard, Lynette
  • Woodring, Harry
  • Wooster, Lorraine Elizabeth
  • World War I


    • Y

  • Y.M.C.A.


    • Z

    Transcription of Kansas Portraits was prepared with the assistance of volunteer Nicolette Wayant.
     
     
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