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Big Idea: How Should We Honor Someone's Military Service?

Listening to and engaging with veterans about their military experience is the most meaningful way to thank someone for their service.

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Kirsten Cigler-Nelson Full Story People   The Intangibles Book Club How a high school English teacher stayed in Kansas and found her life's work by challenging students, one book at a time. Full Story Steve Willis walking down a hallway Full Story People   Finding Humanity in Those Who Need it Most As Director of Community Corrections in Lyon County, Steve Willis helps people in the corrections system get the cognitive tools they need to overcome their struggles. Full Story Man sitting in cab of sanitation truck Full Story People   Not Buried in Trash? Thank a Sanitation Worker. A ride-along with the Emporia Sanitation Department reveals the public service and stigma of sanitation work. Full Story Photo by Tom Parker Full Story People   Working Hard in the Heartland "Ad Astra: Working Hard in the Heartland,” an initiative from Humanities Kansas elevates the stories of working Kansans, especially the resilience of the working class, a population often overlooked. Full Story
Inman Depot   Full Story Slides Rule In 1987, in preparation for the centennial of Inman, Kansas, town officials put out a call for photos, documents, memorabilia, and other objects that could tell the south central Kansas community’s story. Full Story
"Familia Rodriguez" by Jasmine Strecker   Full Story Faces and Places "Faces of the East Side Neighborhoods," is a photo documentary project exploring the human legacy a Mexican immigrant community established within Dodge City in the early 20th century. Full Story
Jason Wesco walking in front of quote   Full Story Big Idea: It's Time to Change the Way We Talk About Poverty An estimated 875,000 Kansans are likely not making ends meet. Rather than place blame on why or how this happened, let's try to understand the real impact that economic insecurity has on our communities and neighbors. Full Story
Be a Story Chaser Full Story   INSTA-INSPIRE Story Chasers help spark new conversations and lead the movement of ideas spreading across the state. Full Story
Suffragettes in Lawrence, c. 1910. Photo courtesy of KansasMemory.org Full Story   I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar A new traveling exhibition commemorates centennial of the 19th amendment Full Story
Dr. Gayln Vesey Full Story   Meet Galyn Vesey Dr. Galyn Vesey was a participant in the 1958 lunch counter sit-in at the Dockum Drugstore in downtown Wichita and is currently working on a book about the Black experience in Wichita, Kansas from the 1870s to the 1970s. Full Story
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Three Days of Peace and Music

Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music happened fifty years ago this month.

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Kit Auner Full Story   Meet Kit Auner, HK Summer Fellow 2019 Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music happened fifty years ago this month. Full Story Leighann Thone Full Story   Meet Leighann Thone, HK Summer Fellow 2019 Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music happened fifty years ago this month. Full Story Kansas Industrial Farm for Women Full Story   The Kansas Industrial Farm for Women Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music happened fifty years ago this month. Full Story Our Good Earth Full Story   Sustaining Healthy Communities One Meal at a Time Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music happened fifty years ago this month. Full Story Sarah Lamm Full Story   Big Idea: It's Time for More Representation in STEM Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music happened fifty years ago this month. Full Story Image of Freddy Gipp against a starry background Full Story   Meet Freddy Gipp Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music happened fifty years ago this month. Full Story
William Allen White Full Story People   Confronting the Klan The world watched through its newspapers as the 56-year-old newspaper editor William Allen White traveled 2,783 miles and made 104 speeches, all directed at expelling the Klan. Full Story Sweetheart Dancing Full Story People   Sweetheart Dancing Dressed in identical regalia, Adrian Stevens and Sean Snyder registered to perform in the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians powwow Sweetheart’s Special dance category. But, the judges disqualified them. Full Story KS Memory_Chautauqua Full Story People   Speaking Out: Women Speakers at the Chautauqua During the late nineteenth century, women challenged social, educational, and political systems that limited or excluded their participation in civic engagement. Full Story Sandzen Full Story Places   A New Deal for Public Art in the Free State What do the 29 Kansas artworks commissioned by the US Treasury Department’s Section of Fine Arts tell us about how Kansans saw themselves and their communities in the 1930s and 1940s? Full Story
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The Weather of Our Lives

I've been traveling Kansas as part of HK's Speakers Bureau to explore what weather and our panoramic sky say about how to live and who we are.

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