University of Kansas.

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The University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Douglas County was established in 1864 under constitutional provision. KU is a major comprehensive research and teaching university that serves as a center for learning, scholarship, and creative endeavor. The university is committed to offering the highest quality undergraduate, professional, and graduate programs and offers a broad array of advanced graduate study programs. It fulfills its mission through faculty, academic, and research programs of international distinction and through outstanding libraries, teaching museums, and information technology. KU includes the University of Kansas Medical Center, an integral and unique component of the University of Kansas and the Kansas Board of Regents system. It is composed of the School of Medicine, located in Kansas City and Wichita; the School of Nursing; the School of Allied Health; the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City; and a Graduate School. The KU Medical Center is a complex institution whose basic functions include research, education, patient care, and community service involving multiple constituencies at state and national levels. [University of Kansas, "Statement of Institutional Mission," http://www.ku.edu/about/institutional_mission.shtml (accessed 11 March 2009).] [Wilder, Bessie. Governmental Agencies of the State of Kansas, 1861-1956. Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1957.]

From the description of Records of the University of Kansas, 1929 - 2007. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 692724499

This project originated as part of the course requirements for History 8, United States History, 1865 to the Present, taught by William Juhnke, in an effort to build a data base related to in-migration to Kansas. The collection has since been added to by Mark Rose.

From the guide to the Family History, 1974-77, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection)

During World War II, Camp Concordia at Concordia (Cloud County), Kansas was one of many prisoner of war camps within the United States which housed captured German soldiers. The camp at Concordia was in operation from 1943 to 1945. It was the first and largest Kansas prisoner of war camp, designed to hold over 4,000 prisoners, and included a hospital, water tower, and guard tower. In 1945, a broad curriculum of camp-approved study courses, taught by German-speaking instructors, was offered by the University of Kansas to prisoners at Camp Concordia.

From the guide to the Curriculum of the Prisoner of War Camp (Concordia, Kansas), 1945, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection)

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Subjects:

  • Basketball
  • College students
  • Exchanges Of Publications
  • Geology
  • Kansas. Genealogy
  • Natural history
  • Prisoners of war
  • Prisoners of war
  • Smithsonian Publications
  • State universities and colleges
  • University of Kansas
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Prisoners of war
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945

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  • Kansas--Concordia (as recorded)
  • Kansas (as recorded)

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