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Go Swedes! Preserving Hyllningsfest in Lindsborg
Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum received a Cultural Preservation Grant from HK supporting the Hyllningsfest Photo Digitization project.
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Porubsky's -- Transcendent Deli
Porubsky’s – Transcendent Deli follows Matthew Porubsky on his journey to discover the history and appeal of the business his grandparents began in the Little Russia neighborhood in Topeka over seventy years ago.
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The Big Idea
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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Five Flags of Ford County
The territory today known as Ford County has been called by a multitude of names over the centuries, from New Spain to the Province of Louisiana to the State of Kansas, among others.
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A Rendezvous with History
The territory today known as Ford County has been called by a multitude of names over the centuries, from New Spain to the Province of Louisiana to the State of Kansas, among others.
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Big Idea: Indigenous Storytelling in Museums
The territory today known as Ford County has been called by a multitude of names over the centuries, from New Spain to the Province of Louisiana to the State of Kansas, among others.
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Humanities vs. Godzilla
The territory today known as Ford County has been called by a multitude of names over the centuries, from New Spain to the Province of Louisiana to the State of Kansas, among others.
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A New Portrait of Stafford County
The territory today known as Ford County has been called by a multitude of names over the centuries, from New Spain to the Province of Louisiana to the State of Kansas, among others.
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Snapshots of History
The territory today known as Ford County has been called by a multitude of names over the centuries, from New Spain to the Province of Louisiana to the State of Kansas, among others.
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Oil and Gold: The McPherson Globe Refiners Basketball Story
The territory today known as Ford County has been called by a multitude of names over the centuries, from New Spain to the Province of Louisiana to the State of Kansas, among others.
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Big Teams in a Small Town
In 1913, the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox planned an exhibition tour to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Cairo, London, Paris, and... Blue Rapids, Kansas.
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Literature
New Territory for Kansas Literature
Casagrand Foss is leading a project that spotlights the literary identity of Kansans with “Literary Landscapes in Kansas: From the Ground to the Airwaves.” The project is supported by an HK Humanities for All grant.
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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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