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 fromJSTORandProject MUSE.
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
With a New Preface by the Author
A. J. Bacevich
The Vanishing Farmland Crisis
Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land
John Baden
The Democratic State
Roger Benjamin, Stephen L. Elkin
The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968
With a New Foreword by Carlos Figueroa
Surendra Bhana
Marcuse
From the New Left to the Next Left
With a New Preface by the Authors
John Bokina, Timothy J. Lukes
The Jet Makers
The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972
Charles D. Bright
The Development of Rural America
George Brinkman
"The Constitution of the People"
Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society
Robert E. Calvert
The Frontier Challenge
Responses to the Trans-Mississippi West
With a New Foreword by April Petillo
John G. Clark, April Petillo
Timber and the Forest Service
David A. Clary
Life at Four Corners
Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945
With a New Preface by the Author
Carol K. Coburn
Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism
With a New Foreword by Sarah Burns
Anne M. Cohler
The Black Towns
Norman L. Crockett
Quipus and Witches' Knots
The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Culture, with a Translation and Analysis of "Oribasius de Laqueis"
Cyrus Lawrence Day
Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory
With a New Preface by the Author
Mary G. Dietz
Keeping the People's Liberties
Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights
With a New Preface by the Author
John J. Dinan
The Lost Promise of Progressivism
With a New Preface by the Author
Eldon J. Eisenach
Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt
Walter H. Eitner
Presidential Lightning Rods
The Politics of Blame Avoidance
With a New Preface by the Author
Richard J. Ellis
Enduring Liberalism
American Political Thought Since the 1960s
With a New Foreword by Jefferson Decker
Robert Booth Fowler
The Dance with Community
The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought
With a New Foreword by Susan McWilliams Barndt
Robert Booth Fowler
Becoming Free
Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity
With a New Preface by the Author
Emily R. Gill
Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment
With a New Preface by the Author
Lewis L. Gould
Ike's Letters to a Friend, 1941-1958
With a New Foreword by Miroslava Chávez-García
Robert W. Griffith
Getting By
Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development
With a New Preface by the Author
Christina E. Gringeri
The Truman White House
The Administration of the Presidency 1945-1953
Francis H. Heller
The Enduring Indians of Kansas
A Century and a Half of Acculturation
With a New Foreword by Sarah Deer
Joseph B. Herring
Kenekuk the Kickapoo Prophet
With a New Foreword by Kiara M. Vigil
Joseph B. Herring
Class and Community in Frontier Colorado
With a New Preface by the Author
Richard Hogan
The Cattle Guard
Its History and Lore
With a New Preface by the Author
James F. Hoy, Jimmy M. Skaggs
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
Nontimber Forest Products in the United States
With a New Preface by Eric T. Jones, Rebecca J. McLain, Susan Charnley, and James Weigand
Eric T. Jones, Rebecca J. McLain, James Weigand, Susan Charnley
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
With a New Preface by David E. Kromm
David E. Kromm, Stephen E. White, Gilbert F. White
Leaders of Reform
Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916
With a New Foreword by Charles Delgadillo
Robert Sherman La Forte, Charles Delgadillo
The Urban West at the End of the Frontier
With a New Foreword by Sandra I. Enríquez
Lawrence H. Larsen, Sandra I. Enríquez
A Preface to American Political Theory
With a New Foreword by Sanford Levinson
Donald S. Lutz, Sanford 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, Richard T. Ruetten
Requiem
Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes
Forrest McDonald, Ellen Shapiro
Harry H. Woodring
A Political Biography of FDR's Controversial Secretary of War
Keith D. McFarland
Multiculturalism and American Democracy
Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman
Democratic Temperament
The Legacy of William James
With a New Preface by the Author
Joshua I. Miller, Sheldon Wolin
Slave Women in the New World
Gender Stratification in the Caribbean
With a New Preface by the Author
Marietta Morrissey
The Learning of Liberty
The Educational Ideas of the American Founders
With a New Preface by the Authors
Lorraine Smith Pangle, Thomas L. Pangle
George Washington and American Constitutionalism
Glenn A. Phelps
Passions and Interests
Political Party Concepts of American Democracy
Gerald M. Pomper
New Governance for Rural America
Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships
Beryl A. Radin, Robert Agranoff, Ann O’M. Bowman, C. Gregory Buntz
Critical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, and Community Power
With a New Preface by the Author
Paul Schumaker
The Sex Radicals
Free Love in High Victorian America
Hal D. Sears
Kansas Governors
With a New Foreword by Virgil W. Dean
Homer E. Socolofsky
Landlord William Scully
Homer E. Socolofsky
Shaping Modern Liberalism
Herbert Croly and Progressive Thought
Edward A. Stettner
The President as Statesman
Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution
With a New Foreword by Trygve Throntveit
Daniel D. Stid, Trygve Throntveit
Brandeis
Beyond Progressivism
With a New Preface by the Author
Philippa Strum
Brandeis on Democracy
With a New Preface by the Author
Philippa Strum
America's Bachelor Uncle
Thoreau and the American Polity
With a New Preface by the Author
Bob Pepperman Taylor
Our Limits Transgressed
Environmental Political Thought in America
With a New Preface by the Author
Bob Pepperman Taylor
Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism
Lesie J. Vaughan
The 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
With a New Foreword by Joshua Specht
Charles L. Wood, 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