Topics in Kansas History: Community & Daily Life

Education

As settlers built towns and cities across Kansas, communities were quick to establish public schools. Providing an education for their children was a priority. Soon colleges and universities also were begun although, during the 19th century, most Kansans did not attend school past the eighth grade.read more

Find resources on education.

• Country Schools
• Eisenhower, Milton
• "'A Sower Went Forth': Lyman Beecher Kellogg and Kansas State Normal." Kansas History, Winter 2001

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

Museum Store

• Books for children
• Activity books
• Teaching books
• General history books

Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine

• "History As You Like It! History Day in Kansas," Winter 1996

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "The Education of an Intellectual: George S. Counts and Turn-of-the-Century Kansas," Winter 2002
• "The First Decade of Educational Governance in Kansas, 1855-1865," Spring 2001
• "'Our Schools Must Be Open to All Classes of Citizens': The Desegregation of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, 1938," Summer 1996

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "Chautauqua: The Most American Thing in America," Autumn 1997
• "Equal Education: The Fight, The Right," December 2003/January 2004
• "Good Old-Fashioned School Days," September 1997
• "Let There Be Light! The Carnegie Libraries in Kansas," Spring 1997

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