City of Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas

Patrick Schmidt for Kansas 2nd District Congress

Chris Mann for Kansas Attorney General

Rev. Mark Holland, US Senate, Kansas

Laura Kelly, Kansas Governor

Lyon County Historical Museum, 118 East 6th Ave., Emporia

Kansas Historic Preservation Resources

Emporia KS Web Sites

Emporia, site of the first Veterans Day observance in the United States, 1953. Emporia shoe cobbler Alvin J. King and Congressman Ed Rees introduced legislation to rename Armistice Day as Veterans Day. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law on October 8, 1954. Library of Congress legal record on Veterans' Day history

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  • Emporia Online
  • David Traylor Zoo, Emporia

  Art and Theater

  • Artists In Kansas Kansas Art Centers, Kansas Art Galleries, Kansas Art Museums
  • Beats In Kansas Web Sites: The Beat Generation in the Heartland
  • William Burroughs Photo Gallery
  • Malcolm McNeill Interview on William Burroughs, Ah Puch Is Here, Emmy award winning artist McNeill worked with Burroughs in London during early 1970s
  • Hal David Berger, Emporia and Dodge City
  • Cooking In Kansas KS Recipes, cowboy, pioneer cooking, hamburger history
  • Racing In Kansas KS Racers, Races, and Race Tracks
  • Community Theatre of Emporia, Emporia
  • Emporia Granada Theatre, renovated classic theater, Emporia
  • Sweet Granada Chocolate Cafe, custom handmade sweets, Emporia
  • Town Crier Book Store, an independent book seller, Emporia
  • Outside The Box: Affordable, Energy Efficient Construction Technique, by Bill Hanlon

  Events and Festivals

  • KS Art Events

  History Groups

  • Center for Great Plains Studies, Emporia State University
  • Lyon County Historical Society Emporia, KS
  • Ride Into History, historical performance touring troupe, Dr. Joyce Thierer & Ann Birney, Emporia
  • Santa Fe Trail Association Fort Larned
  • Kansas History Resources
    Kansas Genealogy, Kansas Libraries, Kansas Museums

  History Web Directories

  • Kansas Heritage Group
  • Kansas History Web Sites
  • Kansas Official History Site
  • WWW-VL: USA History Timeline

  Humanities

  • Kansas Humanities Council
  • History Alive, Kansas Humanities Council Programs
  • Kansas Chautauqua, 2008

  Libraries

  • State and National

  WWW-VL: United States History

  • Kansas History Gateway Lynn H. Nelson, Established 1993
  • The Coming of the Civil War 1850-1860
  • The Civil War 1860-1865
  • WWW-VL: History: United States: American West History: The expansion of America's West; Old West history
  • WWW-VL: History 1930s History
  • WWW-VL: History: Internet & W3 History of the internet and the worldwideweb
  • WWW-VL: History of Science & Technology

  Museums

  • Lyon County Museum, Emporia
  • Red Rocks: William Allen White House, Kansas State Historic Site, KSHS
  • Holmes Museum of Anthropology, Southwest Pueblo Indian Pottery Wichita
  • Kansas Museums
  • WWW-VL: History US History Museums

  Newspapers

  • Emporia Gazette, Emporia

  Website Tools

  • WWW-VL: W3 Search Engines Internet engines,
    search engine tips, website tools, virus and spyware protection

  Government

  • Topeka, Kansas state capital
  • Kansas History Resources Kansas Government
  • Kansas Energy Council, Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policy and Economics, 2007 August [.pdf]

  Schools and Colleges and Universities

  • Emporia Public Schools USD 253, Emporia
  • Emporia State University
  • Flint Hills Technical College, Emporia

  Graphics

  • Portrait Gallery of Eminent Early-Day Kansans

  Family History

  • Family History (all with Kansas ties)
  • Kansas Collection Voices from the Past

  Genealogy

  • Kansas Interactive Genealogy
  • Source List for Genealogy Research

  Local History

  • Franklin Leonard Gilson, by Dr. Sam Dicks, Emporia State Uiversity
  • Guide to Historical Performance in Kansas, Ride Into History, Admire
  • Kansas Native Prairie
  • Kansas Sights
  • Historical Directory of Kansas Towns (HDKT)
  • Old West Photograph Gallery
  • Interactive Santa Fe Trail

  Maps

  • Old Kansas Area Maps Kansas Collection
  • Interactive Map of Kansas Kansas Community Network
  • USA History Maps

  Old West Kansas

  • Old West Kansas, Native tribes to pioneer west, Kansas Heritage Group
  • Old West Kansas Cowtowns KS cowboys, cattletowns, pioneers
  • Old West Kansas Forts Ft. Leavenworth to Ft. Dodge, KS
  • Old West Kansas Gunfighters KS lawmen, outlaws
  • Old West Kansas Peoples Immigration to KS
  • Old West Kansas Plains and Emigrant Tribes Native Americans (Indians)
  • Old West Kansas Railroads
  • Old West Kansas Trails

  Books and Articles

  • AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History from 1400s to 2000s
  • Cutler's History of the State of Kansas (1883) (KanColl)
  • The Rath Trail (KanColl)
  • Dodge City, the Cowboy Capital, by Robert M. Wright (1913), Dodge City Town President/Founder
  • Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas James C. Malin
  • Web Stacks: Electronic Research Library
  • WWW-VL: Web Ethics

  One Room School Houses

  • One Room School House Photograph Gallery

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