Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
description: The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum is one of thirteen Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
description: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Libraries System administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Spencer Museum of Art
description: The Spencer Museum of Art explores the capacity of art to spark curiosity, inspire creativity, and create connections among people. The Museum, located on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, houses an internationally-known collection that is deep and diverse, currently numbering nearly 36,000 artworks and artifacts in all media. The collection spans the history of European and American art from ancient to contemporary, and includes broad and significant holdings of East Asian art. Areas of special strength include medieval art; European and American paintings, sculpture and prints; photography; Japanese Edo-period painting and prints; 20th-century Chinese painting; and KU’s ethnographic collection, which includes about 10,000 Native American, African, Latin American and Australian works.

University Press of Kansas
description: The University Press of Kansas publishes scholarly books that advance knowledge and regional books that contribute to the understanding of Kansas, the Great Plains, and the Midwest. Founded in 1946 and reorganized in 1967 and again in 1976, it represents the six state universities: Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas, and Wichita State University...Profiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education (3 July 1998) as "a distinctive model of success in turbulent times," the press focuses generally on history, political science, and philosophy. More specifically, it concentrates on presidential studies, military studies, American history (especially political, cultural, intellectual, and western), U.S. government and public policy, legal studies, and social and political philosophy.

The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics Archive
description: The Robert J. Dole Archive at the University of Kansas is one of the nation's most significant collections of papers and artifacts relating to politics in the 20th Century. The Archive contains materials documenting Senator Dole's remarkable career of public service which spanned 35 years on Capitol Hill (1961-1996) and continues to his present roles in the World War II Memorial Commission, Families of Freedom Scholarship Co-Chair, and as the author of One Soldier's Story: A Memoir.

PoliticalFiber.com
description: The mission of PoliticalFiber.com is "to provide University of Kansas students and other young Kansans with lively, high-quality reporting, analysis and conversation about the political issues that most affect them." At the PoliticalFiber.com website, you’ll find links to the day’s top stories as well as original content produced by our team of reporters, opinion writers and multimedia designers.

Robert C. Rowland
description: Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas Dr. Rowland's major teaching and research interests are in rhetorical criticism, argumentation, and the public sphere. Dr. Rowland and his debate colleague were the 1976 National Debate Champions for KU. He is a former director of forensics at KU and at Baylor University. Dr. Rowland received the Louise Byrd Award for Graduate Teaching at the Doctoral Hooding ceremony May 2000. He also is a recipient of the William T. Kemper Teaching Fellowship and the Bernard Fink Award for outstanding teaching, and is a two-time HOPE Award finalist. He also has received an Outstanding Service Award from the Kansas Bar Association based on his work in Continuing Legal Education on legal advocacy. In November 2006, he was honored by the National Communication Association with the Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education.. He and David Frank of the University of Oregon published book on Israeli-Palestinian rhetoric titled Shared Land/Conflicting Identity (Michigan State University Press) in 2002. The book was honored in 2003 with the Kohrs-Campbell prize in rhetorical criticism. A recent survey of journals ranked him among the fifty most published scholars in the discipline.

Burdett A. Loomis
description: Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kansas Burdett Loomis has been a political science professor at the University of Kansas since 1979. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1974, and served as a American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in 1975-6, working for Rep. Paul Simon. He won a Kemper Teaching award in 1996 and established a Washington Semester program in 1984, which has given more than 500 Kansas students the opportunity to work in D.C. He has published more than 25 books in various editions, including The New American Politician, Time, Politics, and Policy: A Legislative Year, The Sound of Money, and seven co-edited editions of Interest Group Politics. A long-time contributor to National Public Radio, he has written regular column for The Topeka Capitol-Journal and the Harris chain of newspapers. He served as Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius's director of administrative communication in 2005, and was the interim director of KU's Robert J. Dole Institute from 1997-2001. Loomis has served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Argentina and has lectured on American politics for the State Department in Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Nepal, and Singapore. He is currently working on a major study of politics in Kansas from the late 1950s through 1974's, as well as a large-scale edited work on American interest groups and lobbying.

Michael S. Lynch
description: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kansas. Michael Lynch received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2007. His research focuses on American politics, Congress, and quantitative methods. He is especially interested in the effects that rules and institutions have on which policies are possible in the US. He is currently working on a project which looks at changes in the use of roll call voting and unrecorded voting throughout the history of Congress. He has published work that assesses the constraining influence of majority rule voting and am looking at the president’s recess appointment power and its impact on the balance of power between Congress and the president. Dr. Lynch teaches undergraduate courses on a variety of American politics topics and teach graduate legislative politics and quantitative methods courses.

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