Subject collection. Documents (1856–1880) regarding territorial and early statehood-era Kansas, including settlement leaflets and brochures; U.S. centennial celebration event programs (1876); Civil War–era government proclamations and patriotic event programs (1863–1873); a leaflet (1888) published by the Plainville (Kansas) School Board denying the accusation that they ordered history texts sympathetic to the Confederate cause; and one leaflet (1879) regarding the influx of African-American settlers to Kansas from southern states.