City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas

New 19th Century Kansas Traveling Shows & Minstrel and Medicine Shows -- Creating a Market for the Blues, both by Pat O'Connor

Mark Dunn's Flint Hills: Mark Dunn shares with you his view of the Flint Hills in all their moods -- easily one of the most beautiful places on the face of the earth; KanColl Graphics

Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, Pro-clean Energy Advocacy Group

National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Bowker House - Located southeast of the Kansas Statehouse, this two-story limestone residence was built in 1866 by Reverend Samuel Bowker to serve as a boarding house for students of Lincoln College (Washburn University). It is the only extant resource associated with Lincoln College and is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited residences in Topeka.

Kansas Preservation Resources

Shawnee County KS Web Sites

• Shawnee County Facts BlueSkyways
• Topeka, KS Chamber of Commerce
• Aviation Explorer's Post 8 Boy Scouts of America, Billard Airport, Topeka
• Compassionate Care Coalition for Medical Marijuana
• Kansas Equality Coalition
• Kansas Compassionate Care Coalition
• Kansas Press Association Topeka
• Sunflower Journeys

Art and Theater

• Artists In Kansas Kansas Art Centers, Kansas Art Galleries, KS Art Museums
• Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate
• Beats In Kansas The Beat Generation in the Heartland
  with Topeka-native Ronald Johnson. ['Anybody can make Paris holy, but I can make Topeka holy.' Jack Kerouac]
• William Burroughs Photo Gallery (1914 - August 2, 1997) Beats In Kansas 2004
• The Collective Art Gallery, Topeka
• Cooking In Kansas KS Recipes, cowboy, pioneer cooking, hamburger history
• Helen Hocker Center for the Performing Arts, Topeka
• Mulvane Art Museum of Washburn University, Topeka
• Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka
• The Kansas Guidebook for explorers, by Marci Penner. A tour of every organized city in the state. 432-page book with 400+ color photos and 3,597 entries.

Events and Festivals

• KS Art Events
• Spectacular Uncertainty: An Exhibit of Images from Tim Forcade’s book Spectacular Uncertainty; Artist Reception, Friday, Jan. 15, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., Gallery talk & book signing — Sunday, Feb. 7, 2:00 p.m.; Exhibit from Jan. 15 - Feb. 27; Strecker-Nelson Gallery, 406˝ Poyntz, Manhattan

History Groups

• Kansas History Resources
  Kansas Genealogy, Kansas Libraries, Kansas Museums
• Shawnee County Historical Society, Topeka
History links: Shawnee County Historical Society, Topeka
• Center for Kansas Studies, Washburn University
• Kansas Museums Association
• KMA Museum Resource Links
• Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka
• Mountain-Plains Museums Association
MPMA Museums Myspace

History Web Directories

• Kansas Heritage Group Web Sites
• Kansas History Web Sites: Native American Tribes to 20th Century History
• Kansas Official History Site
• Kansas History Resources
  Kansas Genealogy, Kansas Libraries, Kansas Museums
• WWW-VL: USA History Timelines

Humanities

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

Libraries

• Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library

State and National

• Kansas State Library, Topeka
• Kansas Web Washburn University Law Library, Topeka

Magazines

• First Intensity Magazine

Museums

• Combat Air Museum, Forbes Field, topeka
• Southwest Pueblo Indian Pottery, Holmes Anthropology Museum Wichita
• Kansas Museum of History, Topeka
• Museum of Modern Hog (Harley-Davidson), Topeka
• Ritchie House Project, Shawnee County Historical Society, Topeka
• Topeka Computing Museum, Topeka
• Kansas Museums
• WWW-VL: History US History Museums
• WWW-VL: US Historic Preservation

Website Tools

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

Government

• Topeka City Government
• Representative Jim Morrison
• Kansas Official Site
• Kansas AG Consumer Complaints
• Kansas and Federal Government Sites
• Kansas Energy Council, Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policy and Economics, 2007 August [.pdf]

Schools and Universities

• Bryan College, Topkea
• Bryan College Online
• Topeka Public Schools, USD501
• Washburn University, Topeka
• Washburn University Law School, Topeka
• Highland Community College, first college in Kansas, 1858 [Perry campus open 2006]

Visitors and Tour Groups

• Topeka Convention & Visitors Bureau
• History Gypsies: Thomas Goodrich & Debra Goodrich
• Kansas Traveler News for KS Tourists

Genealogy

• Topeka Genealogical Society
• Shawnee County KSGenWeb
• Kansas Interactive Genealogy
• Source List for Genealogy Research 1,000s of genealogical links
• Kansas Genealogy and National Sites
• WWW-VL: History: US Demography and Genealogy

Graphics

• Old Kansas Area Maps Including 105 Kansas counties
• Portrait Gallery of Eminent Early-Day Kansans
• Old West Photograph Gallery

Family History

• Kansas Family History
• Pioneer Trails From U.S. Land Surveys, Kansas Heritage
• Kansas Pioneer Project Settlers list
• Kansas Surname List, Kansas Heritage Group
• The Preacher's Kid, by Dr. C. Robert Haywood, Topeka
• BUNCE, George Kress [Shawnee]
• ROOT, Luther H. [Shawnee]

Local History

• The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
• Santa Fe Trail History, Kansas Heritage Group
• Brown vs. Board of Education NHS (NPS)
• Stone Sage Inn and Stage Coach Station at Dover, Kansas
• Topeka: Brief history
• "Langston Hughes in Lawrence: Photographs and Biographical Resources"
  By Denise Low & T.F. Pecore Weso Kansas History Web Sites
• Territorial Kansas History links, KS Heritage Group
• Evolution In Kansas Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution Theory
• Racing In Kansas Kansas Racers, Kansas Race Clubs, and Kansas Race Tracks
• Native Kansas Prairie Wildflowers and Tallgrass Kansas Heritage

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

Research Resources

• WWW-VL: History: US History Data Bases
• WWW-VL: History: US History Federal Sources
• WWW-VL: History: US History Journals

Books and Articles

• AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History from 1400s to 2000s
• WWW-VL: Web Stacks: Electronic Research Library
• WWW-VL: Web Ethics
• Cutler's "History of the State of Kansas" (1883) (Kansas Collection)
• Dorothy's Kansas Memories, by Dorothy Painter Rush, Barclay (1908 - 1920s), Topeka Kansas History Web Sites
• Pioneer Days in Kansas by Cordley, Rev. Richard (Kansas Collection)
• Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas James C. Malin

WWW-VL: United States History

• Kansas History Gateway Lynn H. Nelson, Established 1993
• USA History Maps
• WWW-VL: History: USA Civil War
• WWW-VL: History 1920s History
• WWW-VL: History 1960s History
• American West History: The expansion of America's West; Old West history
• WWW-VL: History: Military History
• WWW-VL: History: Bosnia History (for all the Bosnian Kansas friends)
• WWW-VL: History: Internet History & W3
• WWW-VL: History of Science, Technology & Medicine
• Medical Front WWI, hundreds of pages and photographs on the civilian and military history of World War One, the Great War

Northeast Kansas Towns

Abilene Alma Atchison Belleville Burlington Hiawatha Junction City Kansas City Lawrence Leavenworth

Lyndon Marysville Minneapolis Mound City Olathe Paola Topeka Troy Washington Westmoreland

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