Central Kansas Library System

Describes and illustrates the American West from 1763 to 1912 through a variety of images created during that period.

Uses a variety of contemporary materials to describe and illustrate the battles fought between January 1864 and April 1865 that led to the end of the Civil War.

Uses a variety of contemporary materials to describe and illustrate the early battles in the Civil War from the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861 to the conflict at Fredericksburg at the end of 1862.

Uses a variety of contemporary materials to describe and illustrate the political and personal lives of the United States presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Uses a variety of contemporary materials to describe and illustrate the political and personal lives of the United States presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant.

Stock market crashes in '29 and '87. World war in Europe and Asia. The Baby Boom. Television. Office computers. Automated manufacturing. Migration to the Sun Belt. The economic rise of Japan. VCRs. Booming world trade and investment. ATMs. Environmental activism. Fax machines. Stock market surge in the '80s. Soaring budget deficits. Equal-opportunity revolution. Corporate downsizing. Collapse of the Soviet empire. Before these events, inventions and...