Primary Sources: Pro & Con
ProPro Con Researching Church
History Eyewitness ––whowho No time to reflect on he knows better what meaning of an event happened? Fall Workshop for Church Historians Participant bias Immediate 2006 Single point of view Colorful
Primary Resources Primary Resources
Church Resources Community Resources
Official Records & Documents Courthouses Legal records Meeting minutes Maps Membership lists, etc. Museums, Genealogical Societies, Historical Earlier histories & unofficial documents Societies, Libraries Don’t reinvent the wheel Artifacts Members Photos Diaries & letters Manuscripts, diaries, letters of local characters
Oral Histories Newspapers
Finding Primary Resources
Geographical & Land Records Maps David Rumsey (online) Wichita State University Special Collections (online & print) Land Ownership Transactions Courthouse National Archives and Records Administration 2312 East Bannister Road Kansas City, MO 6413164131--30113011 816/268816/268--80008000
1 Finding Primary Resources
Newspapers
Local library
Kansas State Historical Society
Diaries, Manuscripts
County Historical Societies
Kansas State Historical Society
Territorial Kansas Online
Spencer Research Library, Kansas Collection
2 Secondary Resources: Pro & Con Finding Secondary Resources
ProPro Con Library catalog search terms “name of town” (Kan.) “name of church” (Kan.) Time for thoughtful Filtered through the reflection eyes of the researcher United Methodist Church Evangelical United Brethren Multiple perspectives Less immediate ---- history Multiple sources May have an “agenda” ---- personal narratives or theory to prove ---- correspondence ---- biography
Finding Secondary Materials
Catalogs All of the State Universities University of Kansas ( Kansas Collection )) Public libraries Hays Public Library ( Mary Anne Thompson) Kansas State Historical Society Online Repositories Kansas State Catalog WorldCat
3 Finding Secondary Sources
Bibliographies
Kansas History: an annotated bibliography
Footnotes, bibliographies, works cited at the backs of books and articles
The Methodists
General Conference on Archives and History website
United Methodist Studies: basic bibliographies
Stuck? Ask for Help
Brenda Day Kansas Area Methodist Archives 518 8 thth Street PO Box 65 Baldwin City, KS 66006
785/594785/594--83808380 [email protected] www.bakeru.edu/
4 Researching Kansas Methodist Church History
Selected References
Reference Books:
A. T. Andreas. History of the state of Kansas containing a full account of its growth from an uninhabited territory to a wealthy and important state.. Atchison, Kansas: Atchison County Historical Society, 1976. available online at http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/index.html
Kansas State Historical Society. The annals of Kansas. Topeka: 195-?. Contents: v.1. 1886-1910.- v.2. 1911-1925.
Frank Wilson Blackmar. Kansas; a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Chicago: Standard publishing company, 1912. available online at http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/index.html
Kansas State Historical Society. Guide to Kansas research resources in the Library and Archives Division of the Kansas Historical Society. http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/resourceguide.pdf
Kansas State Historical Society. Researcher’s guide to local government records. http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/localgovt/lrguide.pdf
Kenneth Rowe. United Methodist Studies : basic bibliographies. Available online at http://www.gcah.org/UMStudies.pdf
Patricia D. Smith. Kansas biographical index : county histories. Garden City, Kan. (P.O. Box 1, Garden City 67846-0001): P.D. Smith & S.C. Smith, 2001. Contents: Surnames A-K -- Surnames L-Z.
Patricia D. Smith. Kansas biographical index : state-wide and regional histories. Garden City, Kan: P.D. Smith, 1994.
Patricia D. Smith and Stanley Clifford Smith. Kansas biographical index : town, community & organization histories. Garden City, Kan: P.D. Smith & S.C. Smith, 2001.
Homer Edward Socolofsky and Virgil W. Dean. Kansas history : an annotated bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Journals:
The Kansas historical quarterly. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1931-winter 1977.
Kansas history. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1978-.
Methodist history. Lake Junaluska, N.C., Commission on Archives and History: The United Methodist Church, 1962-.
The Wesleyan quarterly review. Macon, Ga: Wesleyan College, 1964-Nov. 1967.
Methodist history. Lake Junaluska, N.C., Commission on Archives and History: The United Methodist Church, 1962-.
Books of Kansas History:
Robert Smith Bader. Prohibition in Kansas : a history. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1986.
William Elsey Connelley. History of Kansas state and people : Kansas at the first quarter post of the century. Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1928. available online at http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/toc.html
Gretchen Cassel Eick. Dissent in Wichita : the Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Nicole Etcheson. Bleeding Kansas : contested liberty in the Civil War era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Charles W. Ferguson. Organizing to beat the Devil : Methodists and the making of America. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1971.
C. Robert Haywood and Sandra Jarvis. "A funnie place, no fences" : teenagers' views of Kansas, 1867-1900. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Division of Continuing Education, 1992.
Marilyn Irvin Holt. Model Ts, pep chapels, and a wolf at the door : Kansas teenagers, 1900- 1941. Lawrence, Kan.: Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1994.
Kansas Heritage Center. Reference materials and resources. Dodge City, Kan: Kansas Heritage Center, 1984.
Kansas State Historical Society. Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1909/10-1926/28. Kansas State Historical Society. Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka: The Kansas State Historical Society, 1875/81-1907/08.
H. Craig Miner. Kansas : the history of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000. Lawrence: Published in association with the Kansas State Historical Society by the University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Rita Napier and Http. Kansas and the West : new perspectives. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg. Rooted in dust : surviving drought and depression in southwestern Kansas. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
James R. Shortridge. Peopling the plains : who settled where in frontier Kansas. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Lawrence Svobida. Farming the dust bowl : a first-hand account from Kansas. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1986, 1968.
Karen Zeinert. Tragic prelude : bleeding Kansas. North Haven, Conn: Linnet Books, 2001.
Books of Methodist History:
John Owen Gross. The beginnings of American Methodism. New York: Abingdon Press, 1961.
Don W. Holter. The lure of Kansas : the story of Evangelicals and United Brethren, 1853-1968. Kansas?: Kansas West Commission on Archives and History and Kansas East Commission on Archives and History, 1990.
Don W. Holter. Flames on the plains : a history of United Methodism in Nebraska. Nashville, Tenn: Parthenon Press, 1983.
Don W. Holter. Fire on the prairie : Methodism in the history of Kansas. Kansas City, Mo: Editorial Board of the Kansas Methodist History, 1969.
Virginia Gatch Markham. John Baldwin and son Milton come to Kansas : an early history of Baldwin City, Baker University, and Methodism in Kansas : with Milton's journal to the South and his family at the former Bethany College, Topeka. Baldwin City, Kan: The University, 1982.
John Monroe Moore Bp. The long road to Methodist union. New York, Nashville: Abingdon- Cokesbury press, 1943.
Map Resources
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Perry-Castaneda Map Collection (Kansas Historical Maps) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/kansas.html
Wichita State University. Collection of Digitized Kansas Maps http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/maps/index.asp
Online Resources:
General Commission on Archives & History http://www.gcah.org
Kansas Collection http://www.kancoll.org/ . Includes books and articles on Kansas history.
Kansas Genealogical Society http://www.dodgecity.net/kgs/
Kansas History Online. http://www.kansashistoryonline.org/ksh/
Kansas State Historical Society http://www.kshs.org
Territorial Kansas Online http://www.territorialkansasonline.org
Resources available through the State Library of Kansas Blue Skyways (http://skyways.lib.ks.us/ )
Apply for your Kansas Library card here: http://www.kslc.org/index.jsp
Heritage Quest, for census information, this is one of the KanFind databases under HeritageQuest
Kansas Library Catalog, to find books in Kansas libraries, available through Blue Skyways or directly at http://ksuc-agent.auto-graphics.com/agent/login.asp?cid=ksuc&lid=ksuc&mode=g
WorldCat to find books worldwide, at Blue Skyways this is one of the KanFind databases under FirstSearch or go directly to http://www.worldcat.org