Kansas Homesteading
Location: University of Kansas
Sprint Activities and Accomplishments
PI: Sara Gregg, History and Environmental Studies
Librarian Team: Rhonda Houser, Carmen Orth-Alfie, Greta Valentine
Goal: Create two interactive online maps to document the legislative history of the Homestead Act, including the history of Indigenous People’s dispossession and the expansion of the nation-state
End Products: Two maps using ArcGIS Story Maps software to bring the research about Kansas homesteaders into the classroom
