A map of Kansas from 1862 showing boundary lines as recorded by O.B. Gunn and D.T. Mitchell.

Finding Your Place by Looking at Maps

How do you know where you are? Sometimes you know by experience—you have been to this neighborhood before, walked along or driven these streets. Your geographic knowledge and memory grows...
Card catalogue drawers

Adventures in Historical Research

Every archive is different, has its own set of rules. But by the time you sit down at a table in any special collections reading room you have likely filled...