Browse Exhibits (4 total)
Buttons to Ballots: Icons of the Campaign Trail
Campaign buttons document our country, from candidates and their campaigns, to contemporary issues, and American symbolism. This exhibit showcases buttons from numerous elections, highlighting the various people, issues, and designs portrayed on them. The buttons used in this exhibit are exclusively from the Isabel Doerr Campbell Political Buttons Collection. Originally collected by Isabel Doerr Campbell, this collection is made up of campaign buttons and political memorabilia representing a century of presidential candidates and contemporary political issues.
The Dole Insitute Oral History Project
Preserving the legacy of Senator Dole through oral history interviews with a variety of people who knew and worked with him in various capacities, including friends, staffers, colleagues, journalists, members of Congress, and others.
Eisenhower Centennial
The admiration Senator Dole felt for his political hero, President Eisenhower, is strongly felt in the Dole Archives. This exhibit showcases at some relevant material from the collections, with a focus on the 1990 Dwight David Eisenhower Centennial Commission.
Voices from the Big First, 1961-1968
In 1961, Kansas, with the rest of the United States, found itself at a political, social, and cultural crossroads. Featuring a selection of constituent letters written to then-Congressman Bob Dole from the collections of the Dole Archives, this original exhibit offers a window into the hopes and fears of everyday Kansans as they responded to change at home and conflict abroad.