Further Reading

This exhibit is an overview of Radicalism in Southeast Kansas and is not the whole story. There has been some research done on Radicalism in Kansas in general, but the surface has barely been scratched. I hope that stories like these interest more people in studying Radicalism in Kansas.

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For further reading on the Appeal to Reason (1895-1922):

Elliot Shore, Talkin’ Socialism: J.A. Wayland and the Radical Press, (University Press of Kansas, 1988).

James R. Green, Grass-Roots Socialism : Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943 (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1978), http://archive.org/details/grassrootssocial004134.

R. Alton Lee and Steven Cox, When Sunflowers Bloomed Red: Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), 2020.

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For further reading on The People's College (1914-1922):

Frank P. Walsh and Fred D. Warren, The People’s College Vest-Pocket Edition of the Report of the Industrial Relations Commission: Being the Gist of Three Volumes in Exact Words of the Reports, (Fort Scott, Kan.: The People’s College), 1915, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001840326.

Jane Greer, “‘No Smiling Madonna’: Marian Wharton and the Struggle to Construct a Critical Pedagogy for the Working Class, 1914-1917,” College Composition and Communication 51, no. 2 (1999): 248–71, https://doi.org/10.2307/359041.

Julia M. Allen, “‘Dear Comrade’: Marian Wharton of the People’s College, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1914-1917,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 22, no. 1/2 (1994): 119–33.

R. Alton Lee and Steven Cox, When Sunflowers Bloomed Red: Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), 2020.

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For further reading on the Little Blue Books (1919-1978):

R. Alton Lee. Publisher for the Masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018).