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Big Idea: Sharing Women's Stories in Museums
Dr. Sarah Bell, Director, and Donna Rae Pearson, Curator, Kansas Museum of History, in conversation with Big Idea host Dr. Valerie Mendoza as they discuss the future of telling women's stories in museums.
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Hotline: The History of the Electric Guitar
Turn in up to 11! The electric guitars origins can be traced to Wichita, explains Eric Cale, director of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum. Listen to hear the fascinating history!
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Hotline: "Mi Isla"
Poet Laureate of Kansas Huascar Medina reads his poem “Mi Isla.”
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Hotline: La Yarda
Filmmaker Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre recounts the story of La Yarda, an East Lawrence community of Mexican railroad workers and their families.
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Hotline: The History of Board Games
Daniel Ireton of Kansas State University shares the history of the board game.
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Big Idea: Indigenous Storytelling in Museums
Building relationships represents an important new approach by the museum community and one that begins with trust. Who tells the stories of Indigenous history?
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Humanities vs. Godzilla
Building relationships represents an important new approach by the museum community and one that begins with trust. Who tells the stories of Indigenous history?
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A New Portrait of Stafford County
Building relationships represents an important new approach by the museum community and one that begins with trust. Who tells the stories of Indigenous history?
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Snapshots of History
Building relationships represents an important new approach by the museum community and one that begins with trust. Who tells the stories of Indigenous history?
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Oil and Gold: The McPherson Globe Refiners Basketball Story
Building relationships represents an important new approach by the museum community and one that begins with trust. Who tells the stories of Indigenous history?
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Big Teams in a Small Town
Building relationships represents an important new approach by the museum community and one that begins with trust. Who tells the stories of Indigenous history?
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New Territory for Kansas Literature
Building relationships represents an important new approach by the museum community and one that begins with trust. Who tells the stories of Indigenous history?
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The Big Idea
Big Idea: The Power of Imagery and the Civil Rights Experience
Ann Dean looks to imagery as a lens into the Civil Rights Experience in America.
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Remembering the Topeka Bottoms
The “Bottoms,” an area of downtown Topeka, was home to a predominantly Black and Brown community up until the 1950s. An oral history project and documentary is preserving the memories of those who lived there.
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Big Idea: Beyond Brown: Mexican Struggles for Equality in Kansas
Valerie Mendoza looks at the ways the Latino communities banded together to fight discrimination and demand equal protection under the law, focusing special attention on Kansas examples.
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Searching for La Yarda
Short documentary film that explores the Mexican railroad community of La Yarda in East Lawrence, which was destroyed by a flood in 1951.
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Big Idea: Rectifying "et al." History: The Women of Brown Project
Donna Rae Pearson discusses the twelve Black women that were plaintiffs in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, and how their contributions to the civil rights movement have often been overlooked.
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