Mark R. Joslyn is a professor of political science at the University of Kansas.

Now is the moment for a new generation of Kansans to revitalize the tradition and write their own story.  The first half of ...

First, Charles Curtis. Born in Topeka ... He would rise to Senate majority leader and then to vice president under Herbert Hoover in 1928. Second, Alf Landon. As a young man, Landon moved to ...