HIST348: Peoples of Kansas

For those of you who are posting blogs this week, here are a few sources you can consider if you are having trouble choosing a topic.  As you compose your post, think about how you are going to incorporate analysis in addition to your brief summary.  If you choose to discuss a primary source, be sure to print out the “Interpreting Primary Sources” sheet posted on this webpage under the tab “Class Handouts.”

Podcasts

• Cool Things Podcast on Native American Ledger Art
• Kansas Memory Podcast on the End of the Buffalo

Primary sources

• Letter by James Mead (I read a quote from one of his letters in lecture)
• Handbook for the Kansas Pacific Railway
• Medical History of the 19th Kansas Cavalry
• Testimony of Henry H. Hewitt (concerning the Sand Creek Massacre)
• The Captive Cheyennes (article in the Lawrence Standard)

Remember too that you can address topics we’ve already covered, such as the earliest European explorations in the region, the Bleeding Kansas conflict, etc.  You could also discuss a section of Miner and Unrau’s book The End of Indian Kansas, as long as you aren’t double-dipping and just reprinting on your blog what you’re including in your book review.