Books @ KU: Recent submissions

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    • Kansas Revisited: Historical Images and Perspectives 

      Stuewe, Paul K. (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1998)
      The second edition of Kansas Revisited is a collection of twenty-nine articles, twenty of which are from the first edition and nine new essays have been added, one of which on the Kansas economy was written ...

    • Making Do and Doing Without: Kansas in the Great Depression 

      Unknown author (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1983)
      Making Do and Doing Without: Kansas in the Great Depression is a 26-part radio/newspaper series that focuses on the lives of Kansans in the Great Depression. During the 1930s, the American Dream became tarnished for many. ...

    • Vernacular Architecture Forum: Making Urban and Rural Landscapes on the Prairie Plains 

      Domer, Dennis; Swann, Michael (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1996)

    • The Kansas Art Reader 

      Bell, Jonathan Wesley (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1976)
      The Kansas Art Reader is about a growing place of imagination. Kansas as the growing place shapes the details of our daily lives just as it has the ideas and structure of this book. We stressed this for the cover design, ...

    • Embattled Lawrence: Conflict and Community 

      Domer, Dennis; Watkins, Barbara (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2001)
      If past is prologue, then Lawrence will be a contentious place in the twenty-first century. With abolitionists' fervor from the beginning, leaders of the New England Emigrant Aid Company conceived Lawrence, Kansas, as a ...

    • The Government of Kansas 

      Drury, James W.; Stottlemire, Marvin G. (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2001)
      "The Government of Kansas is the comprehensive and authoritative text describing the structures and functions of Kansas state and local government. Written with deep concern for the fundamental and legal bases of political ...

    • Cycles of Change: A History of the KU Divison of Continuing Education 1891-1992 

      Wilson, Theodore A. (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1994)

    • Model Ts, Pep Chapels, and a Wolf at the Door: Kansas Teenagers, 1900-1941 

      Holt, Marilyn Irvin (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1994)
      From the Introduction: "The diaries, letters, reminiscences, and memories presented in this publication are themselves a time capsule, preserving for its readers what Kansas teenagers thought and did in the first decades ...

    • Tribal Governments in Kansas and Their Relations with State and Local Governments 

      Sloan, Thomas J. (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2003)

    • Teacher Guide for The Government of Kansas 

      Sloan, Thomas J. (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2003)
      The sixth edition of The Government of Kansas offers teachers and students a current review of the types and levels of state government and services available to the state's residents, and a look at the state's history and future.

    • The Kansas Legislature: Structure and Process 

      Reece, Marshall P. (KU Public Management Center, 1992)
      Many Kansans view the legislative process as a disordered hodgepodge of events that somehow magically results in new rules for our society, enacted as "laws." In reality, however, the legislative process is finely controlled ...

    • The Kansas Experience in Poetry 

      Leland, Lorrin (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1978)

    • Proceedings of the Alumni Reunion 

      Downing, David R. (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1994)
      This volume was prepared as part of the celebration to recognize the contributions of the staff, faculty, students, and alumni of the department of Aerospace Engineering on the occasion of the 50th graduating class. Included ...

    • The Foundations of American Distance Education: A Century of Collegiate Correspondence Study 

      Watkins, Barbara L.; Wright, Stephen J. (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1991)
      A century after correspondence study began in the United States, the Independent Study Division of the National Continuing Education Association has launched an ambitious project to record the history, achievements, ideas, ...

    • The Eisenhower Era 

      Heller, Francis H. (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1990)
      The Eisenhower Era is a twelve-part radio I newspaper series designed to provide fresh perspectives on the Eisenhower presidency and on the mid-century period. This series uses primary-source material, including oral ...

    • Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Theory and Practice 

      Pollard, Tom; Prentice, Diana B. (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1981)
      In August, 1858, the race for a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate in Illinois attracted national attention. A reporter for the New York Tribune stated at the time that "no local contest in this country ever excited so general ...

    • "A Funnie Place, No Fences": Teenagers' Views of Kansas, 1867-1900 

      Haywood, C. Robert; Jarvis, Sandra (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1992)
      Many hands and minds contributed to bringing this book to completion. Most important were individuals who generously loaned diaries in their possession and granted permission to excerpt from these treasures that deserve ...

    • The Campus Plan: A Framework for Campus Renewal and Physical Development 

      Hemenway, Robert (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1997)

    • Kate Hansen - The Grandest Mission on Earth: From Kansas to Japan, 1907 - 1951 

      Bales, Dane G.; Bales, Polly Roth; Harbin, Calvin E. (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2000)
      This volume of materials by and about Kate Hansen brings together her diaries of a family trip to Colorado by covered wagon in 1891 and a year-long (1893-94) stay in Denmark, her father’s homeland; letters and diary excerpts ...

    • H. George Frederickson Memory Book 

      Frederickson, H. George (Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2012)