2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    May 19, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 3073 - Kansas and Great Plains History


Credits: 3
The social, economic, and political history of the Great Plains from before European exploration until present times. Topics will include the Native American societies on the plains before European exploration and the effect of white settlement upon them, lifestyles of the early plains settlers, Kansas’ role in bringing about the Civil War, farm and cattle society on the plains following the war, the Populist movement and the boom and bust farm economy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the dust bowl, and the war-time and post-war economic diversification of the region.

Offering: As Needed