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Snapshots of History

Using a Culture Preservation Grant from HK, the Anderson County Historical Society Museum set out to catalog and digitize Philip Strain's photographs, with the help of the community.

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Basketball History Full Story People   Oil and Gold: The McPherson Globe Refiners Basketball Story Experience a Kansas basketball team’s triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Full Story Lift Kansans Out of the Mud Logo Full Story People   Voices and Votes: Out of the Mud Belleville is known by its slogan “The Crossroads of America,” thanks to the efforts of newspaper editor and good roads advocate A.Q. Miller. Full Story woman and girl celebrating kwanzaa Full Story People   Hotline: The Story of Kwanzaa Kwanzaa is observed for seven days after Christmas through New Year's Day. Lona Reeves of The Kansas African American Museum talks about the history and traditions of this celebration of African American culture. Full Story Cash Hollistah Full Story People   Hotline: Winter Soundtrack Cash Hollistah shares a playlist of songs to get you in the winter spirit. Full Story
photo of female 1940s college students at a party   Full Story Hotline: Marymount College Dr. Patricia Ackerman, freelance writer and professor of language arts at Kansas State University, shares the holiday traditions of Marymount College on the Humanities Holiday Hotline. Full Story
nesahkluah and stone   Full Story A New Portrait of Stafford County The "Hall of Portraits: Documenting our Diverse Legacy", supported by an HK Humanities for All grant, is a photography and film project at the St. John Homecoming Hall and Museum in Stafford County, KS. Full Story
close up of corn   Full Story Hotline: The Cultural Importance of Indigenous Food Listen as Devon Mihesuah talks about the cultural importance of indigenous foods. Full Story
illustration of a scene from Hamlet Full Story   Hotline: Ghosts in Literature Kim Stanley of McPherson College discusses the role of ghosts in Western literature, from The Odyssey to Hamlet to The Haunting of Hill House. Full Story
statue of woman in a bonnet Full Story   Hotline: The Legend of the Blue Light Lady Generations of Hays residents have stories about seeing or seeking the ghostly "Blue Light Lady." Jim Hoy tells the story of Elizabeth Polly and how she became the "Blue Light Lady" of Hays. Full Story
typical audience Full Story   Voices and Votes: "The Most American Thing in America" Theodore Roosevelt called Chautauqua “the most American thing in America.” Like many Kansas communities, Winfield played a vital role in this turn-of-the-20th century movement of ideas. Full Story
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Hughes and Parks: Renaissance Men

"Hughes + Parks" is a new exhibition supported by a Humanities For All grant at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott exploring the friendship and legacy of these two famous Kansans.

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Sketch Full Story   Voices and Votes: The 43 Naked Voters of 1858 "Hughes + Parks" is a new exhibition supported by a Humanities For All grant at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott exploring the friendship and legacy of these two famous Kansans. Full Story McCabe Full Story   Voices and Votes: Edward P. McCabe, Political Pioneer "Hughes + Parks" is a new exhibition supported by a Humanities For All grant at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott exploring the friendship and legacy of these two famous Kansans. Full Story Rainbow flag with the words No Place Like Home Full Story   No Place Like Home "Hughes + Parks" is a new exhibition supported by a Humanities For All grant at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott exploring the friendship and legacy of these two famous Kansans. Full Story Bat Masterson Full Story   Voices and Votes: Respectfully, W.B. Masterson "Hughes + Parks" is a new exhibition supported by a Humanities For All grant at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott exploring the friendship and legacy of these two famous Kansans. Full Story Elizabeth Bender Roe Cloud Full Story   Voices and Votes: The Fight for Indigenous Voting Rights "Hughes + Parks" is a new exhibition supported by a Humanities For All grant at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott exploring the friendship and legacy of these two famous Kansans. Full Story Headdress Full Story   From Then to Now: A Student History of Haskell Indian Nations University "Hughes + Parks" is a new exhibition supported by a Humanities For All grant at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott exploring the friendship and legacy of these two famous Kansans. Full Story
Mrs Satan Full Story People   Magic, Mystics, and Murder A new Speakers Bureau topic looks at the story of Spiritualism. Full Story American Soldier in Vietnam War Full Story People   Kansas 1972: Voices of Vietnam Veterans This episode features stories from Kansans who served in the Vietnam War during the early 1970s and how their services affects their lives today. Full Story Jonathan Swayze Full Story People   The Best We Could Do Ashland City Library's oral history project on local Vietnam veterans includes "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir by Thi Bui. Full Story A woman in military attire looks at the camera from a vehicle. Full Story People   Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War To commemorate 50 years since the escalation of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Humanities Kansas launched a multidimensional, statewide oral history project in partnership with the Library of Congress. Full Story
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True Crime in Kansas: The Mystery of the Benders

An upcoming lecture in Pittsburg separates myth, lore, and legend from the facts.

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