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Researching Your German Ancestors: Part 1

Watkins Museum of History 1047 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, United States

German genealogy research is so complicated, expert researcher Alisa Branham will cover this topic in multiple classes. This introductory class will cover basics and the particular challenges of German history and genealogy record such as locating your ancestors, changing political boundaries, terminology, and reading old German script. A useful handout (or two!) will provided to […]

Homeschool History: A Soldier’s Life in Pictures

Watkins Museum of History 1047 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, United States

Looking for a fun event for your homeschool child? The Watkins Museum shares Lawrence history with homeschool students ages 5-12 every month throughout the school year. Each lesson studies a topic based on Lawrence and/or Douglas County History while spending time in the galleries and using artifacts to learn about past citizens and events. Lessons […]

Free

DNA for Genealogy Research

Watkins Museum of History 1047 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, United States

DNA is a powerful tool for genealogy research, helpful for confirming your ancestry or identifying family members in situations like adoption. In this class, genealogy expert Alisa Branham will cover the various companies with a primary focus on AncestryDNA, and we will illustrate how to work with the “matches” to your family tree. Case studies […]

$15 – $25

Online Book Talk: Varmints and Victims: Predator Control in the American West

Join us on the Watkins Museum YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter as we chat with historian Frank Van Nuys about his fascinating book, Varmints and Victims: Predator Control in the American West. Varmints and Victims puts the debate over predator control into historical context, tracing the West’s relationship with charismatic predators like grizzlies, wolves, and cougars from […]

Final Friday: Amazing History at the Watkins

Watkins Museum of History 1047 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, United States

Drop by the museum to view exciting local history exhibits, including From Then to Now: A Student History of Haskell Indian Nations University and Creatures From the Vault: Animal-Themed Artifacts from the DCHS Collection.

Free

Potter’s Field History Harvest

Lawrence Public Library 707 Vermont St.

Share your story at the next History Harvest for the Oak Hill Cemetery Potter's Field Remembrance Project. If you have a story, photograph, document, etc. about the potter’s field or someone buried there and would like to share it, please stop by the Lawrence Public Library's Videocasting Studio on Wednesday, April 5. If you have […]

Free

Book Event: The Life & Legacy of Elizabeth Miller Watkins

Watkins Museum of History 1047 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, United States

Join us as we celebrate an exceptional Lawrence woman and the new biography written about her. In the engaging new book The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Miller Watkins: A Pioneering Philanthropist, Mary Dresser Burchill and Norma Decker Hoagland’s extensive research paints a portrait of a remarkable woman whose generosity endures at KU and in […]

Free

Trails That Connect Us

1927 Moodie Rd.

Join us for the family-friendly Trails that Connect Us event! Come to the Free State Brewing Bottling Facility on the Burroughs Creek Trail Loop section, located at 1927 Moodie Rd., Lawrence. Enjoy a beer, brewery tour, trail information, food trucks, kid-friendly activities and more.

Online Book Talk: Native Americans After World War I

Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, author Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was reinvented in the years following World War I in his book First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I. During that conflict, twelve thousand Native American soldiers served in […]

The Munsee Tribe in Kansas

Watkins Museum of History 1047 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, United States

Through a grant from Humanities Kansas, the Munsee Tribe in Kansas has embarked on “Niiloona Munsiiw: We Are Munsee,” a cultural preservation project and series of events that will protect archival materials and educate residents of Franklin, Douglas, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte Counties about the history of the tribe in those areas. Join us at the […]

Free

Swimming in Change: Researching Lawrence’s First Integrated Swimming Pool

Outdoor Aquatic Center 727 Kentucky St., Lawrence, Kansas

Join us at the Outdoor Aquatic Center as KU graduate student Maggie Brown-Peoples details her research into the issues around the creation of Lawrence’s first integrated swimming pool. From the protests of the Jayhawk Plunge in 1960 to the creation of the Lawrence Municipal Pool in 1969, university students, civic organizations, and others came together […]

Tiny Tours: Springtime Planting

Watkins Museum of History 1047 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, United States

Tiny Tours are a once-a-month program for children ages 3-5 who have not entered school. The tour focuses on an interactive and a hands-on activities based on Lawrence history. Tour activities include story time, videos, time in the galleries, handling artifacts, arts, crafts, and games.  Children must be accompanied by an adult during Tiny Tours. There is […]

Free