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.
Kansas Open Books forthcoming in Spring 2021
In Search of Canaan
Black Migration to Kansas, 1879–80
Robert G. Athearn
Diplomat in Khaki
Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1949
Andrew J. Bacevich
With a New Preface by the Author
The Vanishing Farmland Crisis
Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land
Edited by John Baden
The Democratic State
Edited by Roger Benjamin and Stephen L. Elkin
The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936–1968
Surendra Bhana
With a New Foreword by Carlos Figueroa
Marcuse
From the New Left to the Next Left
Edited by John Bokina and Timothy J. Lukes
With a New Foreword by the Authors
Jet Makers
The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972
Charles Bright
The Development of Rural America
George Brinkman
The Constitution of the People
Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society
Edited by Robert E. Calvert
Introduction by Wilson Carey McWilliams
Kansas Populism
Ideas and Men
O. Gene Clanton
With a New Foreword by Jeff Wells
The Frontier Challenge
Responses to the Trans-Mississippi West
Edited by John G. Clark
Timber and the Forest Service
David A. Clary
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
Montesquieu’s Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism
Anne M. Cohler
The Presidency of William Howard Taft
Paolo E. Coletta
The Black Towns
Norman L. Crockett
Quipus and Witches’ Knots
The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Cultures
Cyrus Lawrence Day
Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory
Edited by Mary G. Dietz
With a New Preface by the Author
Keeping the People’s Liberties
Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights
John J. Dinan
With a New Preface by the Author
The Johnson Years, Volume Two
Vietnam, the Environment, and Science
Edited by Robert A. Divine
The Lost Promise of Progressivism
Eldon J. Eisenach
With a New Preface by the Author
Walt Whitman’s Western Jaunt
Walter Eitner
Presidential Lightning Rods
The Politics of Blame Avoidance
Richard J. Ellis
Enduring Liberalism
American Political Thought Since the 1960s
Robert Booth Fowler
The Dance with Community
The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought
Robert Booth Fowler
Becoming Free
Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity
Emily R. Gill
With a New Preface by the Author
Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment
Lewis L. Gould
With a New Preface by the Author
Ike’s Letters to a Friend, 1941–1958
Robert W. Griffith
Getting By
Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development
Christina E. Gringeri
The Truman White House
The Administration of the Presidency, 1945–53
Edited by Francis H. Heller
Kenekuk, the Kickapoo Prophet
Joseph B. Herring
The Enduring Indians of Kansas
A Century and a Half of Acculturation
Joseph B. Herring
Class and Community in Frontier Colorado
Richard Hogan
With a New Preface by the Author
The Cattle Guard
Its History and Lore
Jim Hoy
With a New Preface by the Author
Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs
Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains
Thomas D. Isern
On Turner’s Trail
100 Years of Writing Western History
Wilbur R. Jacobs
The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era
Ralph Ketcham
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
Leaders of Reform
Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900–1916
Robert La Forte
With a New Foreword by Charles Delgadillo
The Urban West at the End of the Frontier
Lawrence H. Larsen
With a New Foreword by Sandra L. Enríquez
A Preface to American Political Theory
Donald S. Lutz
With a New Foreword by Sanford V. Levinson
Revolt Against Modernity
Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Post-Liberal Order
Ted V. McAllister
Quest and Response
Minority Rights and the Truman Administration
Donald R. McCoy and Richard T. Ruetten
Requiem
Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes
Forrest McDonald and Ellen Shapiro McDonald
Harry H. Woodring
A Political Biography of FDR’s Controversial Secretary of War
Keith D. McFarland
Multiculturalism and American Democracy
Edited by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman
Democratic Temperament
The Legacy of William James
Joshua I. Miller
With a New Preface by the Author
Slave Women in the New World
Gender Stratification in the Caribbean
Marietta Morrissey
With a New Preface by the Author
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
George Washington and American Constitutionalism
Glenn A. Phelps
Passions and Interests
Political Party Concepts of American Democracy
Gerald M. Pomper
Critical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, and Community Power
Paul Schumaker
With a New Preface by the Author
The Sex Radicals
Free Love in High Victorian America
Hal Sears
Kansas Governors
Homer Socolofsky
With a New Preface by Virgil W. Dean
Landlord William Scully
Homer Socolofsky
Shaping Modern Liberalism
Herbert Croly and Progressive Thought
Edward A. Stettner
The President as Statesman
Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution
Daniel D. Stid
Brandeis on Democracy
Philippa Strum
With a New Preface by the Author
Brandeis
Beyond Progressivism
Philippa Strum
With a New Preface by the Author
America’s Bachelor Uncle
Thoreau and the American Polity
Bob Pepperman Taylor
With a New Preface by the Author
Our Limits Transgressed
Environmental Political Thought in America
Bob Pepperman Taylor
With a New Preface by the Author
Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism
Leslie J. Vaughan
Political Theory of Conservative Economists
Conrad P. Waligorski
The American Deists
Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic
Kerry S. Walters
Lucius Polk Brown and Progressive Food and Drug Control
Tennessee and New York City, 1908–1920
Margaret Ripley Wolfe
The Kansas Beef Industry
Charles L. Wood
With a New Foreword by Joshua Specht
A Black Odyssey
John Lewis Waller and the Promise of American Life, 1878–1900
Randall Bennett Woods
The Roosevelt Foreign-Policy Establishment and the “Good Neighbor”
The United States and Argentina, 1941–1945
Randall Bennett Woods
Henry Adams
The Historian as Political Theorist
James P. Young