In 1926, he moved to the Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, where he was associate professor of history for several years.
He died on February 4, 1963, just after beginning a semester as a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina.
[1] He wrote history from the perspective of average Americans, whose values he believed had shaped the United States.
[1] He also was an editor and contributor to the Holt, Rinehart and Winston series The Economic History of the United States.
[6] In fact, Shannon's own description of southern agriculture after the Civil War was strongly critical of the exploitation of black sharecroppers by white landowners.