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Researching Church Researching Church

HistoryHistory

Fall Workshop for Church HistoriansFall Workshop for Church Historians

20062006

Primary Sources: Pro & ConPrimary Sources: Pro & Con

ProPro

�� Eyewitness Eyewitness –– who who

knows better what knows better what

happened?happened?

�� ImmediateImmediate

�� ColorfulColorful

ConCon

�� No time to reflect on he No time to reflect on he

meaning of an eventmeaning of an event

�� Participant biasParticipant bias

�� Single point of viewSingle point of view

Primary ResourcesPrimary Resources

�� Church ResourcesChurch Resources

�� Official Records & DocumentsOfficial Records & Documents

�� Meeting minutesMeeting minutes

�� Membership lists, etc.Membership lists, etc.

�� Earlier histories & unofficial documentsEarlier histories & unofficial documents

�� Don’t reinvent the wheelDon’t reinvent the wheel

�� MembersMembers

�� Diaries & lettersDiaries & letters

�� Oral HistoriesOral Histories

Primary ResourcesPrimary Resources

�� Community ResourcesCommunity Resources

�� CourthousesCourthouses

�� Legal recordsLegal records

�� Maps Maps

�� Museums, Genealogical Societies, Historical Museums, Genealogical Societies, Historical Societies, LibrariesSocieties, Libraries

�� ArtifactsArtifacts

�� PhotosPhotos

�� Manuscripts, diaries, letters of local charactersManuscripts, diaries, letters of local characters

�� NewspapersNewspapers

Finding Primary ResourcesFinding Primary Resources

�� Geographical & Land RecordsGeographical & Land Records

�� MapsMaps

�� David Rumsey (online)David Rumsey (online)

�� Wichita State University Special Collections Wichita State University Special Collections (online & (online & print) print)

�� Land Ownership TransactionsLand Ownership Transactions

�� CourthouseCourthouse

�� National Archives and Records AdministrationNational Archives and Records Administration

2312 East Bannister Road2312 East Bannister Road

Kansas City, MO 64131Kansas City, MO 64131--30113011

816/268816/268--80008000

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Finding Primary ResourcesFinding Primary Resources

�� NewspapersNewspapers

�� Local libraryLocal library

�� Kansas State Historical SocietyKansas State Historical Society

�� Diaries, ManuscriptsDiaries, Manuscripts

�� County Historical SocietiesCounty Historical Societies

�� Kansas State Historical SocietyKansas State Historical Society

�� Territorial Kansas OnlineTerritorial Kansas Online

�� Spencer Research Library, Kansas CollectionSpencer Research Library, Kansas Collection

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Secondary Resources: Pro & ConSecondary Resources: Pro & Con

ProPro

�� Time for thoughtful Time for thoughtful

reflectionreflection

�� Multiple perspectivesMultiple perspectives

�� Multiple sourcesMultiple sources

ConCon

�� Filtered through the Filtered through the

eyes of the researchereyes of the researcher

�� Less immediateLess immediate

�� May have an “agenda” May have an “agenda”

or theory to proveor theory to prove

Finding Secondary ResourcesFinding Secondary Resources

�� Library catalog search termsLibrary catalog search terms

�� “name of town” (Kan.) “name of town” (Kan.)

�� “name of church” (Kan.)“name of church” (Kan.)

�� United Methodist Church United Methodist Church

�� Evangelical United BrethrenEvangelical United Brethren

�� ---- historyhistory

�� ---- personal narrativespersonal narratives

�� ---- correspondencecorrespondence

�� ---- biographybiography

Finding Secondary MaterialsFinding Secondary Materials

�� CatalogsCatalogs

�� All of the State UniversitiesAll of the State Universities

�� University of Kansas (University of Kansas (Kansas CollectionKansas Collection))

�� Public librariesPublic libraries

�� Hays Public Library (Hays Public Library (Mary Anne Thompson)Mary Anne Thompson)

�� Kansas State Historical SocietyKansas State Historical Society

�� Online RepositoriesOnline Repositories

�� Kansas State CatalogKansas State Catalog

�� WorldCatWorldCat

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Finding Secondary SourcesFinding Secondary Sources

�� Bibliographies Bibliographies

�� Kansas History: an annotated bibliographyKansas History: an annotated bibliography

�� Footnotes, bibliographies, works cited at the Footnotes, bibliographies, works cited at the

backs of books and articlesbacks of books and articles

�� The MethodistsThe Methodists

�� General Conference on Archives and History General Conference on Archives and History

websitewebsite

�� United Methodist Studies: basic bibliographiesUnited Methodist Studies: basic bibliographies

Stuck? Ask for HelpStuck? Ask for Help

Brenda DayBrenda Day

Kansas Area Methodist Kansas Area Methodist

ArchivesArchives

518 8518 8thth StreetStreet

PO Box 65PO Box 65

Baldwin City, KS 66006Baldwin City, KS 66006

785/594785/594--83808380

brenda.day@bakeru.edubrenda.day@bakeru.edu

www.bakeru.edu/www.bakeru.edu/

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