 Topics
in Kansas History: Agriculture
People have been farming in Kansas for thousands of years. The state's
history and identity is closely tied to its agricultural roots. Farming
has been central to Kansas economy, politics, laws, innovations, culture,
social customs, and traditions. Known as the "Wheat State" and "Breadbasket
of the World," Kansas farmers and ranchers continue to feed people around
the world. read more
Find resources on Agriculture:
- Capper, Arthur
- 1874
Grassphopper Invasion
- A Kansas Portrait
- "Paved With
Good Intentions: Good Roads, the Automobile, and the Rhetoric of Rural
Improvement in the Kansas Farmer, 1890-1914," Kansas
History, Winter 1995
- "Pottery:
A Hallmark of Prehistoric Agriculturalists," Kansas
Preservation, May/June 2001
- "Spotlight on a Millenium of Kansas Farming," March/April 2001
- "A
Toolkit for the Prehistoric Farmer," Kansas
Preservation, March/April 2001
Letters, documents, objects, photographs and sites
Sites
Bibliographies
Finding aids and guides to the collections
Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine
Kansas History, our scholarly journal
- "Folk Entomology in the Flint Hills of Kansas," Autumn 1996
- "From Kanasin to Kansas: Mexican Sisal, Binder
Twine, and the State Prison Twine Factory, 1890-1940," Winter 2001
- "Hoeing Their Own Row: Black Agriculture
and the Agrarian Ideal in Kansas, 1880-1920," Autumn 1999
- "Kansas Barns in Time and Place," Spring 1999
- "A Pennsylvania Family Brings
Its Barn to Kansas," Spring 1999
- "The Round Barns of Kansas," Spring 1999
Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine
Kansas Traveling Interpretive Exhibit Service
(KITES)
Teaching Materials
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