Ghosts in the Sunken Garden: The Founding and Early Years of Emporia State University

Ghosts in the Sunken Garden This book offers a meticulously researched examination of how settler communities and their leaders worked to establish higher education on the frontier of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. It focuses on the unfolding drama and struggles associated with the creation and early development of the first normal school in Kansas, an institution-now Emporia State University–originally charged with training teachers for the newly developing state.