• More than beefsteak and a cup of coffee: Reinterpreting the Harvey Girls in Kansas 

  Harris, Dee A. (Wichita State University, 1996-05)

  This work provides the historical research and conceptual framework for a new interpretation of the Harvey Girls. The women who worked in Harvey eating houses were more than just waitresses -- they were Harvey Girls ...

• American settlers on the Canadian prairies 

  Baerg, Henry R. (Wichita State University, 1953-05)

• Myra McHenry, Kansas crusader 

  Foster, Eldon T. (Wichita State University, 1953-05)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to preserve the historical facts pertaining to the last of the Kansas crusaders . This work attempts to show the influence of Myra McHenry upon the struggle between vice and corruption ...

• Gerald Burton Winrod: Defender of Christianity and democracy in the United States 

  Beale, Barbara J. (Wichita State University, 1994-05)

  This research attempted to uncover the effects, if any, that the pronouncements of Gerald Burton Winrod, an evangelist from Wichita, Kansas, had upon President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the American ...

• Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West 

  Castel, Albert (Wichita State University, 1951-05)

• Henry Lane Wilson, ambassador to Mexico 

  Bayles, M. Ward (Wichita State University, 1950-00)

  The purpose of this study is to consider the diplomatic relations of the United States and Mexico during the earlier phases of this last revolutionary period, dealing in particular with the diplomacy of Henry Lane ...

• History of El Dorado, Arkansas, 1843-1900 

  Charles, Virginia S. (Wichita State University, 1949-08)

• The migration of the Swedes to Lindsborg, Kansas 

  Giannangelo, Emory (Wichita State University, 1947-03)

• Searching for an identity in this wilderness: A comparative history of Black counter-identity movements in twentieth century America 

  Nelson, Eddie J. (Wichita State University, 2022-05)

  This thesis examines three African American counter identity organizations that contributed distinct responses to the overt displays of White racism during the early twentieth century. Moreover, this thesis explores the ...

• Williamina Parrish: Artist, photographer, mentour 

  Swink, Rhenee C. (Wichita State University, 2022-05)

  Williamina Parrish was a St. Louis artist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that became known nationally and internationally for use of photography as a medium of art. As a photographic artist she ...

• Native American colonization 

  Paintin, McKenna (Wichita State University, 2022-05)

  The United States launched a multi-pronged genocide against the Native Americans in order to achieve Manifest Destiny. It was not political manipulation nor economic dependency nor cultural genocide alone that forced the ...

• A pioneer history of Hamilton County, Kansas 

  Chollar, William F. (Wichita State University, 1941-06)

• George M. Hoover, Dodge City pioneer 

  Gribble, Gerald (Wichita State University, 1940-06)

• William Greiffenstein and the founding of Wichita 

  McIssac, Robert H. (Wichita State University, 1937-06)

  In this account of the life of one of the pioneers and founders of Wichita, I have attempted to depict some of the characteristics which were necessary for the success of the pioneer fathers and some of the hardships and ...

• The history of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita, Kansas, 1888-1900 

  Lake, Sister M. Victoria (Wichita State University, 1937-06)

  This history of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita tends quite simply to shape and preserve the principal events which marked the time from the organization of the Community in Abilene in 1888, to the establishment ...

• Pioneer history of Medicine Lodge 

  Miller, Percy S. (Wichita State University, 1936-06)

• The Wichita real estate boom 

  Long, Earl V. M. (Wichita State University, 1931-05)

  In treating the Wichita real estate boom, I was particularly impressed with the fact that so many intelligent people were caught in that fever of speculation, who were ordinarily of calculating temperament . Many probably ...

• A history of the First Presbyterian church of Wichita, Kansas 

  Stone, Ruth S. (Wichita State University, 1935-07)

  The history of the First Presbyterian Church is of special interest to Wichita, not only from a standpoint of its contribution to the betterment of the social and religious work in the community, but from a historical ...

• The history of education in Wichita to 1900 

  White, Nellie M. (Wichita State University, 1933-06)

  As the years pass by the past tends to become extinct so that precautions must be taken to preserve the evidences or to record that which has happened. This duty falls largely upon the historian. Thus far only brief and ...

• Pioneer history of Kingman 

  Lowe, Jessie H. (Wichita State University, 1933)

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