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 Kansas Open Books are available as freely downloadable ebooks in epub and pdf formats. Paperback editions are also available for purchase. Click on the cover images below to learn more about each book, download an ebook, or purchase a paperback. Open access ebook editions can also be downloaded from JSTOR and Project MUSE.
Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80
Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1949
With a New Preface by the Author
Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land
The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968
With a New Foreword by Carlos Figueroa
From the New Left to the Next Left
With a New Preface by the Authors
The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972
"The Constitution of the People"
Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society
Ideas and Men
With a New Foreword by Jeff Wells
Responses to the Trans-Mississippi West
With a New Foreword by April Petillo
Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945
With a New Preface by the Author
Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism
With a New Foreword by Sarah Burns
The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Culture, with a Translation and Analysis of "Oribasius de Laqueis"
Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory
With a New Preface by the Author
Keeping the People's Liberties
Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights
With a New Preface by the Author
Vietnam, the Environment, and Science
The Lost Promise of Progressivism
With a New Preface by the Author
The Politics of Blame Avoidance
With a New Preface by the Author
American Political Thought Since the 1960s
With a New Foreword by Jefferson Decker
The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought
With a New Foreword by Susan McWilliams Barndt
Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity
With a New Preface by the Author
Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment
With a New Preface by the Author
Ike's Letters to a Friend, 1941-1958
With a New Foreword by Miroslava Chávez-García
Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development
With a New Preface by the Author
The Administration of the Presidency 1945-1953
The Enduring Indians of Kansas
A Century and a Half of Acculturation
With a New Foreword by Sarah Deer
With a New Foreword by Kiara M. Vigil
Class and Community in Frontier Colorado
With a New Preface by the Author
Its History and Lore
With a New Preface by the Author
Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs
Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains
100 Years of Writing Western History
Nontimber Forest Products in the United States
With a New Preface by Eric T. Jones, Rebecca J. McLain, Susan Charnley, and James Weigand
The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era
With a New Foreword by Greg Weiner
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
With a New Preface by David E. Kromm
Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916
With a New Foreword by Charles Delgadillo
The Urban West at the End of the Frontier
With a New Foreword by Sandra I. Enríquez
A Preface to American Political Theory
With a New Foreword by Sanford Levinson
Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Post-Liberal Order
Minority Rights and the Truman Administration
Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes
A Political Biography of FDR's Controversial Secretary of War
The Legacy of William James
With a New Preface by the Author
Gender Stratification in the Caribbean
With a New Preface by the Author
The Educational Ideas of the American Founders
With a New Preface by the Authors
Political Party Concepts of American Democracy
New Governance for Rural America
Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships
Critical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, and Community Power
With a New Preface by the Author
Free Love in High Victorian America
With a New Foreword by Virgil W. Dean
Herbert Croly and Progressive Thought
Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution
With a New Foreword by Trygve Throntveit
Beyond Progressivism
With a New Preface by the Author
With a New Preface by the Author
Thoreau and the American Polity
With a New Preface by the Author
Environmental Political Thought in America
With a New Preface by the Author
Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic
Lucius Polk Brown and Progressive Food and Drug Control
Tennessee and New York City, 1908-1920
With a New Foreword by Joshua Specht
John Lewis Waller and the Promise of American Life, 1878-1900
The Roosevelt Foreign-Policy Establishment and the "Good Neighbor"
The United States and Argentina, 1941-1945
The Historian as Political Theorist
