Kansas Information for Student & Researchers

Topics

• Kansas Get Away Guide
• Kansas Statistical Information, Basic History
• In-Depth Kansas Historical Research
• Kansas Government
• Searching our Online Catalog (ATLAS)

Kansas Get Away Guide

REQUEST A COPY OF THE KANSAS GET AWAY GUIDE
http://www.travelks.com/guide.asp
(Full of pictures, maps and information on Kansas.
Provided by Kansas Travel & Tourism, Kansas Dept. of Commerce)

Kansas Statistical Information, Basic History

Kansas Facts (Kansas Governor's Office)
http://www.governor.ks.gov/Facts/default.htm
(Basic information on Kansas history, government and symbols)

Kansas (Wikipedia: the free online encyclopedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas
(Excellent resource for basic information on Kansas)

Hays Daily News Information site
http://northwestkansas.hdnews.net/
(Basic information on the Sunflower State)

Kansas at a Glance (Kansas Secretary of State)
http://www.kssos.org/images/Kansas%20Kids/glance.pdf
An excellent resource on Kansas.

Kansas Fast Facts (Kansas Travel a& Tourism)
http://www.travelks.com/s/index.cfm?aid=25
(An excellent site with basic information on Kansas)

Kansas Facts and Fancies (The Kansas Collection Web Site)
http://www.kancoll.org/articles/kstrivia/
(Trivia questions about Kansas history)

Kansas Statistical Abstract (Policy Research Institute, University of Kansas)
http://www.ku.edu/pri/ksdata/ksah/
(In depth statistical information on Kansas. Adobe Acrobat software required)

StateMaster.com
http://www.statemaster.com/index.php
A good resource for statistics with charts, lists, etc. for all 50 states of the United States

Netstate.com
http://www.netstate.com
An excellent place to get basic information on all 50 states of the United States

U.S. Census Bureau web site
http://www.census.gov/
(Click on the menu link, AMERICAN FACT FINDER or select Kansas in the drop down box under STATE AND COUNTY QUICK FACTS)

Kansas Timeline of State History (provided by The Statehouse Girls)
http://www.statehousegirls.net/ks/timeline/
(An excellent chronological look at Kansas history)

Topics in Kansas history (Kansas State Historical Society)
http://www.kshs.org/research/topics/index.htm
(Various subjects and time periods in Kansas history with links to resources)

Photographs of Kansas scenes
http://www.kansasphototour.com/
(A photo tour of Kansas provided by Harland J. Schuster)

The World's Largest in Kansas (Kansas Sampler Foundation)
http://kansassampler.org/wekan/largest.html
("some strange, all true")

"Capitals" of Kansas (Kansas Sampler Foundation)
http://kansassampler.org/wekan/capitals.html
(Find out which town is the Greyhound Capital, the Energy Capital,
the Outhouse Capital, the Pinto Bean Capital, etc)

Kansas Firsts (Kansas Explorers Club)
http://explorekansas.org/firsts.html
(The first state to have a teachers hall of fame, the first woman mayor, etc)

(From" The Kansas Directory)
1)-- Kansas Voting information
2)-- Incorpoarted cities of Kansas
3)-- Population of Kansas counties and cities from most recent federal census
3)-- Primary Zip Codes for Kansas towns
http://www.kssos.org/forms/communication/pop.pdf
You'll need Adobe Acrobat software to view this online document)

Kansas County Officials (From: The Kansas Directory)
http://www.kssos.org/forms/communication/county.pdf
(Names, addresses and telephone numbers of county officials in Kansas
You'll need Adobe Acrobat software to view this online document)

In-Depth Kansas Historical Research

Historic documents Available Online (Kansas State Historical Society)
http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/online/
(Territorial constitutions, old photos, Territorial Kansas Online Project, Western Trails Project)

The Kansas Collection (Carrie Project, University of Kansas)
http://www.kancoll.org/
(Articles, books, illustrations and research projects on the history of Kansas and the Great Plains)

Kansas Book Transcriptions On-Line (KSGenWeb Project)

Online transcriptions of books on statewide and local Kansas history

Western Trails Project (Kansas State Historical Society)

(Digitized photographs, printed materials, and maps that document several facets of transportation across Kansas)

Territorial Kansas Online, 1854-1861 (Kansas State Historical Society)
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php
(A virtual repository for territorial Kansas history)

Kansas Historical Quarterly Transcription site
Kansas Collection Project
Kansas State Historical Society
Kansas Historical Collections Transcription site (Kansas State Historical Society)

(Transcriptions of articles on Kansas history appearing in two older Kansas State Historical Society journals)

Kansas Government

kansas.gov
http://www.kansas.gov/
(Official web site of the state of Kansas)

Basic Kansas Government Information (From: The Kansas Directory)
http://www.kssos.org/forms/communication/legis.pdf
(A list of all current state officials. ALSO INCLUDES SALARIES OF MOST KANSAS STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.
You'll need Adobe Acrobat software to view this online document)

Kansas at a Glance (Kansas Scretary of State)
http://www.kssos.org/images/Kansas%20Kids/glance.pdf
(Includes a section on Kansas government. You'll need Adobe Acrobat software to view this online document)

Kansas State Constitution online
http://www.kslib.info/constitution/index.html
(The current state constitution. Does not includes amendments)

Searching our Online Catalog (ATLAS)

http://topekalibraries.info/search~S4

Click on any of the following ATLAS subject terms to browse through lists of material available at the Kansas State Library and other research libraries in Topeka, Kansas.

Kansas--History
Kansas--Politics and government

Kansas--Biography
Kansas--Constitution

Kansas--Tours
Kansas--Description and travel
(Under this heading you'll find both historic and newer travel Kansas information) You can also search the ATLAS catalog for resources on local history. As an example the following subject headings will connect you to Topeka research library holdings on Topeka and Shawnee County, Kansas:

Topeka (Kan.)--History
Shawnee County (Kan.)--History
Topeka (Kan.)--Biography
Shawnee County (Kan.)--Biography

The State Library also has an extensive newspaper clippings file with articles from several Kansas daily
newspapers covering this topic. This collection does not circulate but is available in the library for research.

If you see something you'd like to borrow from the Kansas State Library or have further questions feel free to contact us

All information provided by the Kansas State Library Research and Information Division

Last updated June 6, 2005

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