Thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University Press of Kansas, in collaboration with the University of Kansas Libraries, has digitized outstanding books in history and American political thought and made them freely available online.
All books will soon be available in pdf, epub, and print-on-demand editions. Links are provided below for editions now available. Open access ebook editions can also be downloaded from JSTOR and Project MUSE.
In Search of Canaan Black Migration to Kansas, 1879–80 Robert G. Athearn Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Diplomat in Khaki Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1949 Andrew J. Bacevich With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Vanishing Farmland Crisis Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land Edited by John Baden Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Democratic State Edited by Roger Benjamin and Stephen L. Elkin Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936–1968 Surendra Bhana With a New Foreword by Carlos Figueroa Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Marcuse From the New Left to the Next Left Edited by John Bokina and Timothy J. Lukes With a New Foreword by the Authors Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Jet Makers The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972 Charles Bright Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Development of Rural America George Brinkman Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
“The Constitution of the People’ Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society Edited by Robert E. Calvert Introduction by Wilson Carey McWilliams Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Kansas Populism Ideas and Men O. Gene Clanton With a New Foreword by Jeff Wells Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Frontier Challenge Responses to the Trans-Mississippi West Edited by John G. Clark Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Timber and the Forest Service David A. Clary Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Life at Four Corners Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868–1945 Carol K. Coburn With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Montesquieu’s Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism Anne M. Cohler With a New Foreword by Sarah Burns Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Black Towns Norman L. Crockett Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Quipus and Witches’ Knots The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Cultures Cyrus Lawrence Day Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory Edited by Mary G. Dietz With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Keeping the People’s Liberties Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights John J. Dinan With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Johnson Years, Volume Two Vietnam, the Environment, and Science Edited by Robert A. Divine Download open access ebook Download paperback edition |
The Lost Promise of Progressivism Eldon J. Eisenach With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Walt Whitman’s Western Jaunt Walter Eitner Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Presidential Lightning Rods The Politics of Blame Avoidance Richard J. Ellis With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Enduring Liberalism American Political Thought Since the 1960s Robert Booth Fowler With a New Foreword by Jefferson Decker Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Dance with Community The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought Robert Booth Fowler With a New Foreword by Susan McWilliams Barndt Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Becoming Free Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity Emily R. Gill With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment Lewis L. Gould With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Ike’s Letters to a Friend, 1941–1958 Robert W. Griffith With a New Foreword by Miroslava Chávez-García Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Getting By Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development Christina E. Gringeri With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Truman White House The Administration of the Presidency, 1945–53 Edited by Francis H. Heller Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Kenekuk, the Kickapoo Prophet Joseph B. Herring With a New Foreword by Kiara M. Vigil Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Enduring Indians of Kansas A Century and a Half of Acculturation Joseph B. Herring With a New Foreword by Sarah Deer Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Class and Community in Frontier Colorado Richard Hogan With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Cattle Guard Its History and Lore Jim Hoy With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains Thomas D. Isern Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
On Turner’s Trail 100 Years of Writing Western History Wilbur R. Jacobs Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Nontimber Forest Products in the United States Edited by Eric T. Jones, Rebecca J. McLain, and James Weigand Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era Ralph Ketcham With a New Foreword by Greg Weiner Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains Edited by David E. Kromm and Stephen E. White Foreword by Gilbert F. White With a New Preface by David E. Kromm Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Leaders of Reform Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900–1916 Robert La Forte With a New Foreword by Charles Delgadillo Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Urban West at the End of the Frontier Lawrence H. Larsen With a New Foreword by Sandra L. Enríquez Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
A Preface to American Political Theory Donald S. Lutz With a New Foreword by Sanford V. Levinson Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Revolt Against Modernity Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Post-Liberal Order Ted V. McAllister Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Quest and Response Minority Rights and the Truman Administration Donald R. McCoy and Richard T. Ruetten Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Requiem Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes Forrest McDonald and Ellen Shapiro McDonald Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Harry H. Woodring A Political Biography of FDR’s Controversial Secretary of War Keith D. McFarland Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Multiculturalism and American Democracy Edited by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Democratic Temperament The Legacy of William James Joshua I. Miller With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Slave Women in the New World Gender Stratification in the Caribbean Marietta Morrissey With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Learning of Liberty The Educational Ideas of the American Founders Lorraine Smith Pangle and Thomas L. Pangle With a New Preface by the Authors Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
George Washington and American Constitutionalism Glenn A. Phelps Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Passions and Interests Political Party Concepts of American Democracy Gerald M. Pomper Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Critical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, and Community Power Paul Schumaker With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Sex Radicals Free Love in High Victorian America Hal Sears Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Kansas Governors Homer Socolofsky With a New Preface by Virgil W. Dean Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Landlord William Scully Homer Socolofsky Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Shaping Modern Liberalism Herbert Croly and Progressive Thought Edward A. Stettner Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The President as Statesman Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution Daniel D. Stid With a New Foreword by Trygve Throntveit Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Brandeis on Democracy Philippa Strum With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Brandeis Beyond Progressivism Philippa Strum With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
America’s Bachelor Uncle Thoreau and the American Polity Bob Pepperman Taylor With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Our Limits Transgressed Environmental Political Thought in America Bob Pepperman Taylor With a New Preface by the Author Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism Leslie J. Vaughan Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Political Theory of Conservative Economists Conrad P. Waligorski Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The American Deists Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic Kerry S. Walters Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Lucius Polk Brown and Progressive Food and Drug Control Tennessee and New York City, 1908–1920 Margaret Ripley Wolfe Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Kansas Beef Industry Charles L. Wood With a New Foreword by Joshua Specht Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
A Black Odyssey John Lewis Waller and the Promise of American Life, 1878–1900 Randall Bennett Woods Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
The Roosevelt Foreign-Policy Establishment and the “Good Neighbor” The United States and Argentina, 1941–1945 Randall Bennett Woods Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
Henry Adams The Historian as Political Theorist James P. Young Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
New Governance for Rural America Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships Beryl A. Radin, Robert Agranoff, Ann Bowman, C. Gregory Buntz, J. Steven Ott, Barbara S. Romzek, & Robert Wilson Download open access ebook Purchase paperback edition |
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