Kansas Stories
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
A new traveling exhibition commemorates centennial of the 19th amendment
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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.
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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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Meet Kit Auner, HK Summer Fellow 2019
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Meet Leighann Thone, HK Summer Fellow 2019
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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.
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A New Deal for Public Art in the Free State
During the late nineteenth century, women challenged social, educational, and political systems that limited or excluded their participation in civic engagement.
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The Weather of Our Lives
During the late nineteenth century, women challenged social, educational, and political systems that limited or excluded their participation in civic engagement.
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Let Me Be Brave
During the late nineteenth century, women challenged social, educational, and political systems that limited or excluded their participation in civic engagement.
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The Flesh and the Bones
During the late nineteenth century, women challenged social, educational, and political systems that limited or excluded their participation in civic engagement.
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I Just Want to Testify...
During the late nineteenth century, women challenged social, educational, and political systems that limited or excluded their participation in civic engagement.
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William Stafford: Clarity in Times of Anxiety
During the late nineteenth century, women challenged social, educational, and political systems that limited or excluded their participation in civic engagement.
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How Did You First Learn About the Vietnam War?
How do we bridge the gap between Americans who lived through the Vietnam era and younger generations to whom the war is part of the past? Audrey Coleman, of HK's Speakers Bureau, suggests we turn to the archives.
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Dairy Queen
Caroline Shawk Brooks's path to prominence in the traditionally male world of sculpture was hard won. Hard won, but deliciously deserved, and doubly amazing for her choice of medium: butter.
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The Girls of Atomic City
Author Denise Kiernan comes to Hutchinson on March 5 to discuss her book "The Girls of Atomic City" as part of the Dillon Lecture Series. The event is supported by an HK Humanities for All grant.
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The Big Idea
Big Idea: We Need to Elevate Black Women's Stories
Can you remember a time you learned about a famous African American woman? Many Kansans cannot come up with an answer readily or easily.
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What Does Your Horizon Look Like?
What's on the horizon for the historically African American and Latino neighborhoods of North Wichita? A project to collect the stories and community vision of residents is now a new exhibition, "The Color Line."
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