Big Idea Article/Podcast/Music List
Check out engaging articles, podcasts, and musical selections about Big Idea topics and spark a rich, enlightening conversation.
Sharing Women's Stories in Museums
By Dr. Sarah Bell, Director of the Museum and Education Division, Kansas Historical Society, and Donna Rae Pearson, Msueum Specialist, Kansas Historical Society.
Read Bell & Pearson's Big Idea
- STREAM Kansas 1972 podcast episode's Women on the Move and Get Up, Stand Up! about the Equal Rights Amendment and the February Sisters.
- LISTEN to Linda O’Nelio Knoll’s story of the Amazon Army, women protestors in the southeast Kansas coal mines.
African American Storytelling in Museums
by Denise Sherman, Executive Director, The Kansas African American Museum, Brittany Beck, Curator, The Kansas African American Museum, and Dr. Carmaletta Williams, CEO, Black Archives of Mid-America.
Read Sherman, Beck, and Williams' Big Idea
- LISTEN to the Kansas 1972 podcast episode "Uprooted" to hear the story of urban renewals impact on Wichita and the preservation of the Calvary Baptist Church.
- LEARN a more robust history of Black cowboys from the Library of Congress, "Black Cowboys at Home on the Range."
The Power of Imagery and the Civil Rights Experience
by Ann Dean, artist and freelance photographer who teachers photography at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Read Dean's Big Idea
- LISTEN to “Kansas Through the Camera’s Eye,” an episode of the Kansas 1972 podcast featuring the work of Gordon Parks.
Beyond Brown: Mexican Struggles for Equality in Kansas
by Dr. Valerie Mendoza.
Read Dr. Mendoza's Big Idea
- LISTEN Hear the story of John Mendoza, Valerie's father, and his fight for equality in the 1970s Chicano movement in Topeka.
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LISTEN Learn more about the high school walkout in Topeka and how it informed the Chicano movement of 1972 and beyond on the Kansas 1972 podcast episode, “Get Up, Stand Up.”
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LISTEN to filmmaker Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre recounts the story of La Yarda, an East Lawrence community of Mexican railroad workers and their families.
It's Time to Tell the Stories of African American Entrepreneurs
by Robert E. Weems, Jr., Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History, Wichita State University
Audio interviews from the “Wichita African American Business History Project”
Images from the Mind of a Bi-Racial Black Woman
by Ann Dean, professional photographer
- “Black and Blue" by Louis Armstrong
- "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday
- "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke
- "Mississippi Goddamn" by Nina Simone
- "Truth and Soul” by Fishbone ‘ESP’ Miles Davis Second Quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and Ron Carter (or ANYTHING by this group)
It's Time to Reconnect with Nature
by Leslie VonHolten, writer and executive director of Symphony in the Flint Hills
Changing How We Talk About the Civil Rights Movement
by Clarence Lang, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Penn State University
What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement After 1965? Don't Ask Your Textbook?
How Do You Teach the Civil Rights Movement -- NPR
K-12 Educators Workshop: The Long Civil Rights Movement -- with Carol Anderson and Brenda Santos (video)
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall on Civil Rights (video)
How Do You Teach the Civil Rights Movement -- New York Times
How the Civil Rights Movement embodied a time of change -- PBS
The Long Civil Rights Movement Initiative
It's Time to Change How We Talk About Immigrants
by Kandace Creel Falcón, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Minnesota State University Moorhead
My Life as an Undocumented Migrant by Jose Antonio Vargas -- New York Times Magazine
Illegal vs. Undocumented: The Heated Divide Over How We Talk About Immigration
Latino USA -- Podcasts on Immigration
It's Time to Change the Way We Talk About Poverty
by Jason Wesco, Executive Vice-President of the Community Health Care Center
- Poverty USA
- Play Spent, an online experience about surviving poverty and homelessness
- County Health Rankings in Kansas
- Income Inquality publications from the US Census Bureau
Natives Making News: Toward a More Authentic and Ethical Representation of American Indian Identity, Issues, and Individuals
By Dr. Melissa Greene-Blye (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma), Assistant Professor in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Kansas.
- This New York Times list of Indigenous podcasts highlights strong storytelling by Natives themselves.
- This list of recommended films and readings from the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz ranges from Indigenous environmental theory to the history of Natives in rock-and-roll, and more.