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Innovation in History: Impact and Change
Kansas Sample Topic List and Bibliography 2009-2010
Agriculture
Barbed Wire
Bane, Reynolds. “Barbwire; a Concise History and Collector’s Guide.” Western Horseman 48, No. 9 (Sept. 1983) 95-99.
Campbell, Robert O. “Barriers: an Encyclopedia of US Barbed Fence Patents.” Denver, CO: Western Profiles Publishing Company, 1986.
Gann, Walter. “Barbed Wire and Windmills.” Tread of the Longhorns. San Antonio, TX: Naylor Co., 1949, p. 101-118.
Chicken Incubator (Rex Maneval)
Rex W. Maneval Papers, 1939 -1974. Kansas Historical Society Manuscript Collection No 128.
Maneval Chickeries. “Little Tips to Big Things in Poultry.” Frankfort, KS: The Maneval Chickeries, 1931.
Farming Equipment
“Biography of Obed Hussey.” National Encyclopedia American Biography, Vol. XI. James White, 1909.
Steward, J. F. “The Reaper: a History of the Efforts of Those Who Justly May be Said to Have Made Bread Cheap.” New York: Greensberg, 1931.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold. “Cyrus Hall McCormick and the Reaper.” Wisconsin: publisher unknown,1909.
Peanut Farming (George Washington Carver)
Judd, B. Ira. “Dr. George Washington Carver, The Father of the Peanut Lived in Kansas in Late 1880’s.” Grain Producers News Aug. 1975.
Robert C. Caldwell Family Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 627, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
Aviation
Cantilever Plane (Clyde Cessna)
Isely, Bliss. “Clyde Cessna.” Wichita Magazine October 10, 1953.
Woman’s Kansas Day Club. “Celebration Commemorating First Air Mail Flight From Kingman to Wichita and Honoring Clyde Cessna.” Kansans Up & Away. Historical Volume (1982), 12-17.
Cessna, Clyde V. The Wichita. 4, no. 8 (Aug 1927), 24-25.
Helicopter (William J. Purvis and Charles A. Wilson)
Salina Journal. “William J. Purvis and Charles A. Wilson.” Kansas Historical Society Aviation Clippings. 8, (Sept. 22, 1977) 196.
Collett, M. L. “Short Happy Life of the Kansas Flying Machine.” True 95 (Feb. 1966) 66-67.
Wichita Eagle. “Death Notice.” Kansas Historical Society Aviation Clippings. 9 (June 26, 1980) 165.
Daise, William H. ‘World’s First Helicopter.” Ed. Woman’s Kansas Day Club. Kansans Up and Away. Historical Volume (1982) 38.
William Lear
Ripley, Jack B. “William Powell Lear”.
“William Powell Lear.” Who ‘s Who in America with World Notables. Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who, 7, 1981, 342.
“William Powell Lear.” American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 13, 1999.
Energy
Wind Energy (Windmills and Turbines)
“Windmills.” Field Guide to American Windmills. 1985, 254-255.
Blair, Mike. “Water from the Wind.” Kansas Wildlife, 43, no. 2, (March/April 1986) 25-27.
“Dutch Windmills on Prairies of the Middle West.” Kansas History Clippings 6, Kansas Historical Society, 270-71.
Industry
Coleman Lantern (William Coleman)
Kelly, Richard. “The Coleman Company; Illumination is a Coleman Lantern.” Kansas. 2nd ed. (1965), 18-20.
Smith, Donna Preston. “The Old Kansas Lamp Lighter.” Alumni Magazine. 52, no. 2 (Oct. 1953), 7
“Biographical Sketch.” Illustriana Kansas. Baldwin Ed (1933), 240.
Lumber Industry (R. A. Long)
Christenson, Lawrence O., ed. Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Coleman, Daniel. “Biography of Robert A. Long, Lumberman.” Missouri Valley Special Collections, 2008. URL: http://www.kchistory.org/u?/Biographies,230.
“Faith and Hard Work Enabled R.A. Long to Build a Big Business, a Fortune, and Churches.” Kansas City Times, 16 March 1934.
Fowler, Richard B. “His Third Business Venture Was R.A. Long’s Turning Point.” Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 1929.
Whitney, Carrie Westlake. Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People. Kansas City, MO: S. J. Clarke Publishers, 1908.
Telephone
Jaderborg, Elizabeth. The Erickson Brothers and the Workshop in Central Kansas.
Kastrop, Allan. “Swedish-American Inventor of Telephone Equipment.” Swedish Heritage in America, 1975, 463-464.
“Lindsborg Brothers Invented the Dial Telephone.” Kansas Historical Society Inventions Clippings, 2, 32.
Literature and Music
Aaron Douglas
“Aaron Douglas and His Art.” Miscellaneous Materials, 1984.
Park, Esther Ailleen. “References to Biographical Material and Various Works of the Artist Which Have Appeared in Magazines.” Mural Painters in America, part 1. Pittsburg, KS: Kansas State Teachers College, 1941, 67.
Langston Hughes
Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea: An Autobiograhy by Langston Hughes. NY: A. A. Knopf, 1904.
Langston Hughes Papers, Kansas Historical Society Manuscript Collection, Misc. Hughes, L.
Peragallo, Olga. “An American Negro Poet: Langston Hughes.” Italy America Monthly, October 1935, 2, n.10.
Scott, Mark. “Langston Hughes of Kansas.” Kansas History, Spring 1980, 3, n.1.
Langston Hughes Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 127, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Langston Hughes Literary Ephemera Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS P789, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Langston Hughes Literary Works Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 1023, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Drayton, Arthur D. “Langston Hughes: Art and Literature of Necessity.” 1978. Arthur D. Drayton Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS P374, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.
Lilla Day Monroe
Monroe, Lilla Day. ”A First Trip to Beloit.” Kansas Reformatories Clipping, 1, 144.
Monroe, Lilla Day. Letter Concerning Soliciting Funds for the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association. Topeka, 1908.
Gordon Parks
Patricia DuBose Duncan Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 535, Kenneth Spencer Research Library,
University of Kansas Libraries.
William Allen White
White, William Allen. Speeches made while campaigning for Governor, 1924. Kansas Historical Society Manuscript Collection No. 87.
A Bibliography of William Allen White, two volumes. Emporia, Kansas: Kansas State Teachers College, 1969.
Agran, Edward Gale. “Too Good a Town: ’William Allen White and the Emerging Rhetoric of Middle America.” Doctorial Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.
Kennedy, Jean Lange. “William Allen White: A Study of the Interrelationship of Press, Power and Party Politics. Doctorial Dissertation, University of Kansas, 1981.
White, William Allen. The Autobiography of William Allen White. NY: The MacMillian Company, 1946.
Restaurant and Food Industry
Harvey Houses
Fred Harvey: Beebe, Lucius. “Fred Harvey Gentled the Frontier with Choice Foods. Hear The Train Blow,”1952.
Fergusson, Erna. “Fred Harvey, Civilizer.” Our Southwest,1940.
Henderson, James David. “Meals by Fred Harvey, A Phenomenon of the American West.” Texas Christian University Press.
James P. Howe Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 364 , Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
Sandy Wilda, Stalking Louis Curtiss, Architect research materials, Kansas Collection, RH MS 1087, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Comee, Fred T., Research materials concerning Louis Singleton Curtiss, Kansas Collection, RH MS 856, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Louis Singleton Curtiss Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 35, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Zephyr Freeze
Russell Stover: Johnson, Yvonne. “Russell Stover.” Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1999.
“Russell Stover: Culinary”. Kansas Videorecording, Kansas Historical Society.
Science and Medicine
Deep Submarine Engineering (Robert Duane Ballard)
Ballard, Robert. The Discovery of the Titanic. NY: Warner Books, 1987.
“Biographical Sketch.” Current Biography. 47, 1986.
Discovery of Pluto (Clyde Tombaugh)
Garnett, E.B. “Tombaugh’s Home-made Lens was his Ladder to the Stars.” Kansas Historical Society Astronomy Clippings 1, 189-195.
Larned, Tiller and Toiler. “Tombaugh Found Ninth Planet.” Progress in Pawnee County. 1952.
“Clyde Tombaugh, from Burdette, Kans is First to see Ninth Planet.” in Kansas Historical Society Astronomy Clippings.1, 118-131.
Clyde William Tombaugh Biographical File, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Discovery of Vitamins (Ellmer McCollum)
McCollum, Elmer. From Kansas Farm Boy to Scientist. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1964.
Davis, Donald R. “Some Legacies of Nutrition; Pioneer E.V. McCollum”. Oct., 1979. v. 32 no. 3 p. 133
Elmer V. McCollum Collection, University Archives, PP 120, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education Kansas Newspaper Clippings Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 828, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Hormone Research (Earl Sutherland, Jr.)
Caltell, J McKeen. “Biographical Sketch.” American Men and Women of Science, 12th Ed., 6, 1970.
Sutherland, Earl. “Dr. Earl Sutherland Jr. Wins 1971 Nobel Prize.” Time. 98, n 17, Oct 25 1971.
Mental Health (Karl Menninger)
Menninger, Karl and Martin Mayman and Paul Pruyser. The Vital Balance: The Life Process in Mental Health and Illness. NY: Viking Press, 1962.
Crawford, N.A. and K.A Menninger, eds. “What is a Healthy Mind.” The Healthy-Minded Child. 1930.
Public Health (Samuel Crumbine)
Crumbine, Samuel Jay. “The Common Drinking Cup.” Bulletin of Kansas State Board of Health, 5.
Crumbine, Samuel Jay. “A Few Highlights in the History of Sanitation.” Modern Sanitation, April 1954.
Crumbine, Samuel Jay. Kansas Board of Health Newsletter, 13, n12.
Crumbine, Samuel J. Correspondence and Papers. Kansas Historical Society Manuscript Collection, Misc. Crumbine.
Crumbine, Samuel J. Correspondence and Papers. Kansas Historical Society Manuscript Collection No. 79.
Stutzman, Howard E. “The Little Giant of Public Health.” University of Kansas Postgraduate Medical Education Bulletin, 1960-1961.
Slow-Released Time Medicines (Takeru Higuchi)
Jones, Benjamin Clay. “University Mourns Higuchi Scientist, Entrepreneur, Friend.” University of Kansas Alumni, 85, n 6, April 1987.
Galas, Judith. “Fund Honoring KU’S Takeru Higuchi Passes Halfway Mark toward $1 million. KU Campaign Kansas New Release, May 12, 1989.
Takeru Higuchi Collection, University Archives, PP 359, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
John T. Alexander Collection, University Archives, PP 46/PP 473, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Sports
Basketball (James Naismith)
Naismith, James. “Across the Years: Naismith’s Game.” Kansas Alumni,68, n 4, Jan 1970.
“Basketball - - A Game The World Plays”, The Rotarian Jan 1939 v .54, no. 1 pg 33-36.
“Commercialism in Sports”, The Graduate Magazine v. 9 no. 8 May 1911 p. 281.
“A Generation of Athletics”, The Graduate Magazine v 7 no 7 April 1909 p.241.
James Naismith Collection, University Archives, PP 305, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
James Naismith Scrapbooks, University Archives, RG SB/41/Naismith, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
Transportation
Modern Methods of Business Practices (Walter Chrysler)
Cleveland, Reginald M. “To Lear More, He Earned Less.” Saturday Review of Literature, 34, n. 3. Jan 20, 1951.
“Built His Fortune with Brains and Skilled Hands.” Kansas City Star Magazine, July 27, 1924.
Railroads (Cyrus K. Holliday)
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company. Correspondence, 1873-1893, Microfilm Reel MS 706-727, Kansas Historical Society.
Holliday, Cyrus K. Correspondence and Papers, Microfilm Reel MS 146, Kansas Historical Society.
United States Department of the Interior, Lands and Railroads Division. Selected Documents, 1863-1885, Microfilm Reels MS 130-131, Kansas Historical Society.
Social/Cultural
Indian Mission Schools
Indian Mission Schools History Collection, 1837-1879, Microfilm Reel MS 1296, Kansas Historical Society.
Herring, Joseph B. The Enduring Indians of Kansas: A Century and a Half of Acculturation. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1990.
Herring, Joseph B. “The Chippewa and Munsee Indians: Acculturation and Survival in Kansas, 1850s-1870.” Kansas History, Winter 1983/1984.
Miner, H. Craig and William E. Unrau. The End of the Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural Revolution, 1854-1871. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1990.
Additional Topics
Albin K and Dolly Longren
Lutie Lytle
Norman F. Ramsey
Henry Ford Sinclair
Lucy Hobbs Taylor (dentist)
Charlie Angell, Sr. (inventor)
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker
Arthur Fletcher (Affirmative Action)
Jack St. Clair Kilby
E. M. Laird
H. D. Lee
Modern Highway System (Dwight Eisenhower and I-70)
Emergency Weather Alert System and Natural Disasters in Kansas
Water and Soil Conservation
Post Rock
Turkey Red Wheat
Walter & Olive Beech
Glenn Luther “Cy” Martian
GI Bill (Harry Colmmery)
Walter Huxman (Brown v. Bd)
Hugh Speers (Brown v. Bd)
Oil and Gas (El Dorado & Cherekee County)
Rural Electrification
Jazz
Pizza Hut [Wichita] (Frank and Dan Carney)
Toni’s Pizza (Salina)
White Castle (Wichita)
Goat Glands (John Brinkley)
X-Ray Technology (Ed C. Jerman)
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