History Research

Department of History

history

Publications

Jeff Hayton, Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany, Oxford University Press

Robert Owens, ‘Indian Wars’ and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763-1842, Routledge Press

Jay M. Price with Enrique Navarro and Anita Mendoza, Mexican Americans of Wichita’s North End, Arcadia

Craig Torbenson, Civil War Letters of Thomas Torbenson, Telesoga

Robert Weems, The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire, University of Illinois Press

Rannfrid Lasine Thelle- Translation of Discovering Babylon into German, Kohlhammer

Student Scholarship

-Fairmount Folio, a peer-reviewed journal of student scholarship celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2022.

-A Walk With WU: The Story of Wichita State University - Genna Pennington , Jessica Cerri, Darren Defrain , and Jay Price (2020)

-Exhibits -such as at Kansas Aviation Museum

-Walking Tours Including Riverside Walking Tour (Summer 2021)

-Conference Presentation such as:

Justin Gordon, "Comparatively Easy Work: Commitment from Republican Officials and Unity Amongst Civil Rights Activists in 1867 Kansas" -Presented at History Graduate Student Association Conference at LSU

The History Department is proud to offer support to student research and scholarship including the Miner-Unrau Research Travel Award

Community Outreach Highlights

Craig Torbenson, family history and genealogy resource

John Dreifort, local coordinator for Committee On Foreign Affairs

Robin Henry, "Hindsight; Looking Back at 100 Years of Women's Suffrage" Podcast Series

Laila Ballout, panelist for "KMUW's Democracy on Tap" session on Immigration

Adult Education Classes such as Story of Latinx Immigration and People of the Plains

Somos de Wichita/ We Are Wichitans Portable Exhibit with MCLL

Fairmount Liberal Arts and Sciences Perspectives Lecture Series featuring George Dehner, Jeff Hayton, Rannfrid Thelle, Laila Ballout, and Robert Weems.

Department Speakers' Series including:

*Martin Nekola " Post-War Czechoslovakia, Communist Coup, and the Cold War Exile"

*Scott Ellsworth " Hidden History: The Tulsa Race massacre and the Struggle for America's Past"

Student organization for Local and Community History Program: guest speaker David Taggart "The Ongoing American Constitutional Experiment"

Ongoing Research

Criminalizing Sex, Defining Sexuality, Robin Henry

Oral History Project on Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Partnership with Barton School of Business , Robert Weems , Jay Price , Sue Abdinnour

"Non-white Business Owners Tell Their Stories" Funded by Melton Foundation for Digital Research in the Humanities at University of Kansas, Robert Weems , Jay Price , Sue Abdinnour

Saving Lebanon: Diaspora, Religion, and Advocacy for Information in the Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990- Laila Ballout

Legionnaire's Disease, George Dehner

History of Juárez-El Paso, Alberto Wilson

Study of how early Americans, native and newcomer, treated bodies of deceased friends and foes, Robert Owens

Mountaineering in Germany, Jeff Hayton