Join us in welcoming two new Spring 2017 interns to the Chapman Center for Rural Studies: Rachel Hein and Shaun Knipp! Hello, my name is Rachel Hein. I am a junior at Kansas State University majoring in history and from a small town in Kansas by the name of Andale. It is in Sedgwick County, which…
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Welcome Fall 2016 Interns!
Meet the Chapman Center for Rural Studies’ three new interns: Brandon, Bo, and Mallory. They have joined the Center while we usher in the “Going Home: Hidden Histories of the Flint Hills” exhibit. Each have helped prepare thematic and town displays, clean artifacts, and keep the coffee flowing! Brandon Williams I am a sophomore history major; I…
Chapman Center Intern and 2016 Graduate, Anthony Porter, Leaves Written Legacy
by Dr. MJ Morgan, Research Director, Chapman Center for Rural Studies Chapman Center for Rural Studies intern, Anthony Porter, a 2016 K-State graduate, Bachelor of Arts (BA) in history, left a written legacy of his time with us. Anthony’s study of the vanished community of Magic, Riley County, Kansas, appears in the May issue of Kansas…
Straight to Video: Meet our Chapman Center undergraduate researchers
Chapman Center for Rural Studies undergraduate students and researchers Make History come to life! Check out this video/slide show of who we are, what we do and why; and where we are headed. Click here for the Spring 2016 Video (or you can click on the photo below)! Wondering what new Lost Kansas Communities have been added…
Chapman Center Summer Interns, Graduate Research Assistant, & Their Projects
Summer 2015 Busy with Research, Digitization, and Exhibit Development The Chapman Center for Rural Studies welcomes three new interns (Alex Good, Trey Heitschmidt, and Patrick Moran) and one returning intern (Michael Spachek) for a summer of diving into history! The Chapman Center continues to partner with organizations across town and around the state. K-State senior,…
A Rediscovered Legacy
Thanks to diligent research by Chapman Center Intern Michael Spachek, the once forgotten history of a substantial group of black farm families has been brought to life. Michael conducted research on African American land ownership in Wabaunsee County this past fall, discovering the complex stories of success and failure surrounding these remote tracks of land in the…
Undergraduate Research on Display
In December 2014, after a intense semester of research, our interns presented their research findings to a room full of eager listeners. Individuals from around Kansas traveled to the Chapman Center to attend the open house and hear about undergraduate research. The focus of intern research was the discovery of an obscured Kansas history, the history…
Adams’ Collection Research Honors Family of Veterans
Thanks to a generous donation from Brigadier General Bruce Adams (Ret.), Hale Library Special Collections at Kansas State University is now home to a collection of military records, letters, and documents that trace the military and family history of George Adams, Sr., George Adams, Jr., and Bruce Adams. With the death of his own father,…
The Good Land: Chapman Center Students Visit the High Plains!
The Goodland Identity Project: June – October, 2014 An art student with a love of landscape photography, an agricultural business major, a graduate student in women’s studies and public history, and a GIS grad student specialist from the geography department: these talented students have tackled the far western town of Goodland, county seat of Sherman…
Interns in the Field – October 11
When is a metal detector part of historical research? Interns Matt Cantril and Matt Leverich discovered its use (and drawbacks) when working in southern Pottawatomie County Friday, October 11. After much analysis of old maps and newspapers, they think they may have located…
The Rural Telegraph 