Overview

The William Staples collection contains correspondence regarding Staples' employment at the University of Kansas, correspondence and publication agreements with Polity Press, and various records tied to his work as a professor at the University of Kansas.

Overview Typed presentation script and 160 slides, which were used to illustrate the narrative "Radical Kansas" by Scott G. McNall and James P. Divney, which was made possible through a Kansas Committee for the Humanities grant. Topics covered in the presentation include the beginnings of Euro-American settlement in Kansas Territory, farming, the 1874 grasshopper plague, railroads and their effect on trade, the rise of populism, William Jennings Bryan, Louis Pio, spiritualism and Prudence...