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Kansas 250

Kansas & U.S. History

June 2026 Adult Book List

Adult Spotlight

Additional Adult Titles

  • Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire, Stephen Fried   
  • Dust Bowl, The: An Illustrated History, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns   
  • Harvey Houses of Kansas by Rosa Walston Latimer
  • Kansas Baseball, 1858–1941, Mark E. Eberle
  • The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers 
  • Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History, Julie Courtwright   
  • Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women, Nicole Perry
  • Railroad Empire across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey, James E. Sherow, photographs by John R. Charlton

June 2026 Youth Booklist

Youth Spotlight

Kansas Library Directory

Library Programming Ideas

Kansas 250 Commission Activity Recommendations

-- More to Come -- 

As Kansas and America 250 events, exhibits and ideas grow, this page will as well.