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Conny Bogaard, Executive Director of the Western Kansas Community Foundation, describes her memorable trip to the Supai Village at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

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A man looks to the left beyond the camera with a woods background Full Story Places   Hotline: La Yarda Filmmaker Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre recounts the story of La Yarda, an East Lawrence community of Mexican railroad workers and their families. Full Story A group of African American musicians post together with their instruments, black and white. Full Story People   Hotline: Black Banjo & Violin Traditions in Kansas Lem Sheppard, musician and historian based in Pittsburg, Kansas, shares the history of Black banjo and violin traditions in Kansas. Full Story A man wearing glasses looks to the right beyond the camera, black and white Full Story People   Hotline: Summer Road Trip Soundtrack cash hollistah, educator and hip-hop artist, shares his top 10 picks for a summer road trip soundtrack. Full Story 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
black and white photo of the McPherson Globe Refiners team   Full Story Root for the Home Team Catch a glimpse of Kansas sports history with short documentaries about Kansas basketball at the Olympics and futbol in Garden City. Full Story
scissor-tailed flycatcher   Full Story Hotline: "Under tree canopy" Megan Kaminski, Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas and editor of HK’s "Words of a Feather" book, reads her poem “Under tree canopy.” Full Story
fisk jubilee singers   Full Story Hotline: Fisk Jubilee Singers Lem Sheppard, musician and historian based in Pittsburg, Kansas, recounts the story of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a capella ensemble. Full Story
church Full Story   Hotline: Lawrence's Black Churches Patricia Cecil, Archivist Associate at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas, shares the history of Lawrence’s Black churches. Full Story
map of cherokee county kansas Full Story   Hotline: David Harlan and the Founding of Cherokee County Trish Reeves tells the story of her great half-uncle, David Harlan and the founding of Cherokee County, Kansas. Full Story
Amanduh Masters taking part in Pride festivities. Full Story   Proud to be Rural As attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people continue to change across the nation, Independence is a leader of inclusion among small towns. Full Story
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The end of the 19th century ushered in the age of the railroad in Kansas and across the United States.

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Jackie Robinson statue at Wichita's McAdams Park surrounded by people. Full Story   Root, Root, Root for the Wichita Teams The end of the 19th century ushered in the age of the railroad in Kansas and across the United States. Full Story baseball player Full Story   A History Home Run The end of the 19th century ushered in the age of the railroad in Kansas and across the United States. Full Story Freddy Gipp at powwow Full Story   Hotline: The History and Significance of Powwows The end of the 19th century ushered in the age of the railroad in Kansas and across the United States. Full Story Abraham Lincoln Full Story   Hotline: Lincoln in Kansas The end of the 19th century ushered in the age of the railroad in Kansas and across the United States. Full Story Mary White Full Story   Hotline: Mary White The end of the 19th century ushered in the age of the railroad in Kansas and across the United States. Full Story petroglyph Full Story   Hotline: Kansas Petroglyphs The end of the 19th century ushered in the age of the railroad in Kansas and across the United States. Full Story
Standard Oil Station in Colby, Kansas circa 1950. Black and white. Full Story Places   Colby: Continuity and Change With time comes change. But what has stayed consistent in Colby over the past 114 years? Full Story Visitors to the monument near the Geographic center of the United States in Lebanon, Kansas, 1953. Full Story Places   Lebanon: True Middle You’ve heard of true north, but have you heard of the “true middle”? Full Story Kansas Ave in Norton, black and white image Full Story Places   Norton: The Pioneer Spirit What happens when bold individuals determined to blaze new trails find their way to the same area? Look to Norton County, Kansas to begin uncovering the answer. Full Story post rock limestone fence Full Story Places   Hotline: Post Rock Limestone Brad Penka, chairman of the Kansas Post Rock Limestone Coalition, discusses how innovative early Kansas pioneers used limestones as building materials that still shape Kansas architecture today. Full Story
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Kansas scholar Eric Anderson shares the history of the Memorial Arch at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence.

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