Here’s a sneak peek of our Autumn issue! 🤩

This is great advice for people with writer’s block!

Check out the gorgeous cover of our Autumn issue! #comingsoon

We publish academic articles of around 9,000 words on the history and culture of Kansas and the Great Plains. We are quarterly, peer reviewed, and eager to see your submissions! Here’s the link with our guidelines: www.kansashistory.gov/p/kansas-his...

Don’t forget to register for our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium! Please join us for this free virtual event on October 23rd, starting at 1pm EST. It is open to anyone who would like to learn more about book publishing. Register here: upress.ufl.edu

INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT THE WORLD OF PUBLISHING? DO YOU ENJOY LEARNING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF KANSAS? We are hiring an undergraduate editorial assistant for the 2025-2026 academic year. Must be a current KSU student; more details below or feel free to DM us.

Eisenhower fans—this lecture will be right up your alley!

We have also spoken out in support for the Annals of Iowa, our sister publication. Let's remember the importance of state and local history!

✴️ Are you on Facebook and/or Instagram? Make sure to follow us over there as well, @kshistoryjournal. ✴️

Our summer issue faced some delays at the printers, but we are sending it out next week. Thanks for your patience!

The #AMA train keepings rolling #Skystorians! @sgallagher12.bsky.social, is here to talk about her new book "Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture", & answer all your questions on Black history and culture in the American West! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

A great opportunity for authors to present research and get feedback! 👇

This doesn’t explicitly mention submitting work to history journals, but to be clear, our editorial policy is that articles written using generative AI will not be considered for publication.

There are quite a few interesting books related to Kansas here. We look forward to publishing some reviews in the near future!

Our biennial tradition of publishing film reviews is coming your way in the Summer issue! Scholars from across the nation discuss films (and TV series) with Kansas or Great Plains themes, ranging from blockbusters like Wicked to local documentaries. 🎥 🎬 🍿

Our second article out Summer 2025 is another oral history from Garden City's Hispanic community, this time with Pedro "Pete" Sandoval. Subscribe today to receive this issue! www.kansashistory.gov/p/membership...

Following the creation of the state’s fish commissioner position in 1877, Kansas began devoting more resources to support recreational fishing. To facilitate this, the department stocked fish, constructed or altered waterbodies, and combated pollution and siltation. Learn more in our Summer issue!

Our Summer issue is coming--we can't wait for you to see the finished product! Inside, you'll find an article on fisheries management and the Pratt fishery (Adam Hodge), an oral history with Pete Sandoval of Garden City (David Solis & Marco Macias), and our biennial film review series (Tom Prasch).

Guess what's coming in our summer issue? An article connected to this famous train car! Can you identify it? #kansashistory

Check out these videos on how to do historical research! 🗃️

We learned last month that the State of Iowa will no longer fund or publish their peer-reviewed journal Annals of Iowa, which is now looking for an institutional home. Here we share our letter of concern, and we hope others will join us in supporting state and local history! 🗃️ 🧵

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SHEAR invites all to attend this upcoming webinar: “Getting the Most Out of Conferences.” Conferences are daunting, so we welcome all to attend this webinar on some of the major issues around attending conferences. To register for this webinar, visit: vcu.zoom.us/webinar/regi....

The last article in our Spring issue is “Contextualizing the Monroe Neighborhood Using Archaeological Methods” by Nikki Klarmann, Laura Murphy, and Victoria Shaw. It details the results of the 2022 Kansas Archeology Training Program (KATP) field school at the Brown v. Board of Education site.

We continue our oral history series with Cipriana Rodriguez. Born in 1914, five years after her parents came to the U.S., her story speaks to the resilience of those who navigated persistent discrimination, dangerous labor in the sugar beet fields and railroads, and the Arkansas River flood of 1965.

Our Spring 2025 issue has some wonderful articles, spanning a variety of topics! First up is “Rural Depopulation and Reduced-Player High School Football in Kansas” by Andrew Husa. This article tracks rural depopulation, school consolidation, and the rise in the number of six-man teams in Kansas.

Jennifer Helgren's THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS "will appeal to anyone interested in American girlhood, youth organizations, or childhood history" writes Hollie Marquess for @kshistoryjournal.bsky.social. Buy the book: bit.ly/4hBuBzo

Want to subscribe? We have new membership levels, starting at $60, with education and government discounts available! More details at www.kansashistory.gov/p/membership.... #kansashistory

In the 1980s Robert Oppenheimer, a professor at KU, conducted oral history interviews with Hispanic residents of Garden City. We are starting a series that will share three, translated and annotated by faculty and students at FHSU. The first in the series was with Gregorio Mujica in 1981.

The opening article in our forthcoming issue details how Eli Thayer envisioned New Englanders’ role in stopping slavery’s expansion. His New England Emigrant Aid Company believed that free-labor settlements in the West could stop slavery’s expansion, evangelize the nation, and also make a profit.

✨COVER REVEAL✨ Our Winter 2024-25 issue includes an article about the New England Emigrant Aid Company by Courtney Buchkoski. So, our cover depicts the Goodnow House, home of Isaac and Ellen Goodnow in Manhattan! It is now part of the Riley County Historical Museum. #kansashistory

Our Winter 2024-25 issue is in press! In 1887, the Kansas legislature revised the age of consent to sex for girls from ten years old to eighteen. Its passage came thanks to the WCTU, suffrage associations, labor reformers, and Populists. Kansas’s revision—one of the first—provided a jump start.

Working on a Kansas history project? Visit our online editorial policies to learn more. www.kshs.org/p/kansas-his.... #kansashistory

Our Autumn 2024 issue also includes Bernard Harris’s research uncovering the story of vocational training programs at Western University during World War I. This was the only historical Black college or university (HBCU) in Kansas. We can’t wait for you to read it! #kansashistory

Wonderful to see so many new folks on BlueSky! Thanks for following us! 🌻😊 We publish articles on the history and culture of Kansas and the Great Plains. We are quarterly and peer reviewed. If you are a subscriber, the Autumn issue should hit your mailbox soon (if it hasn’t already). (1/2)

Lovely to see all these new followers! We publish articles on the history and culture of Kansas and the Great Plains. We are quarterly, peer reviewed, and eager to see your submissions! Here’s the link with our guidelines: www.kshs.org/p/kansas-his...

In this issue, we continue our reprint series with “The Political Roots of City Managers in Kansas,” originally published by Ed Flentje in 1984. The author himself contributed to the new foreword along with an expert on urban Kansas (and our book review editor), Chase Billingham. 👏🏼 #kansashistory

Our Autumn 2024 issue is heading your way soon! The first article, by Abi Scott, examines the fascinating history of the Catholic sisters who ministered to the Potawatomi after their forced removal to Kansas. If you’ve ever driven through St. Mary’s and been curious about the town, this is for you!

A reminder that we're collecting monographs, articles, and book chapters by non-tenure-track historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything that comes out in 2024 is eligible! Click through to add your suggestions. 🗃️

✨COMING SOON!✨ Our Autumn issue is on its way to our subscribers!

We always welcome submissions of academic articles on Kansas history and culture. Visit www.kshs.org/p/kansas-his... for the full details. #kansashistory

The year 1941 marked the 400th anniversary of Francisco Coronado's expedition through the American Southwest and his brief sojourn into Kansas in search of Quivira. Find out more about this "cuarto centennial" celebration in this fascinating article by Marilyn Irvin Holt.

Our Winter 2023-24 issue should be hitting your mailboxes next week! The issue begins with the story of how women in late-nineteenth-century Kansas encountered (and fended off!) unwanted male attention. The author, Isaias McCaffery, is a professor at Independence Community College. #kansashistory

Welcome to all the new BlueSky accounts, now that it’s *really* open for business! We publish work on Kansas history and culture, including the state’s connection to national events, movements, and people. Follow us! #kansashistory

Check out the abstracts for the three articles in our forthcoming Winter 2023-24 issue at www.kshs.org/p/kansas-his.... It also includes book reviews and book notes, as usual. Our Winter issue always includes an index and errata for the entire volume as well.

COVER REVEAL! Inside our next issue, you will find articles about street harassment in the Victorian era, celebrations in 1941 commemorating Coronado’s expedition onto the plains, and a reprint of a 1966 KHQ article about Theodore Roosevelt’s time in Osawatomie. 🖼️🎨: Maleta Forsberg, Lindsborg

The next issue of Kansas History is in the works! Inside, you will find articles about street harassment in the Victorian era, celebrations in 1941 commemorating Coronado’s expedition onto the plains, and a reprint of a 1966 KHQ article about Theodore Roosevelt’s time in Osawatomie. #skystorians 🗃️

If you are researching a Kansas topic, we’d love to see an article submission! Visit www.kshs.org/p/kansas-his... for details.

Remembering Gordon Parks on his birthday 🎂 📷 Anthony Barboza, 1980s "I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera."