For many years people have referred to a "lost" French colony in the Cottonwood River valley, at the Western edge of the Kansas Flint Hills. Its first immigrants were French, and they called the settlement a "colony." It ...

Interview with historian Gilbert C. Fite.

Introduction

History of the Lakeside School in Kansas.

Interview with historian L.G. Thomas.

The conflict between Anglo and ethnic Texans during the war demonstrates that the South did not march into battle against the Union with a unified front.

The Kansas country schools are representative of the broad liberal arts and the educational experiences of pioneers in all Great Plains states.

Examination of poet Vachel Lindsay's impressions of rural America as a whole and Emporia, Kansas, in particular.