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Kansas 1972: To the Stars

While a Kansan was orbiting the moon in 1972, the state was also a hotbed of UFO sightings. A proposed space shuttle launch site in western Kansas was met with local opposition.

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Full Story Art from the Heart A Lucas oral history project preserves the stories of Kansas grassroots artists. Full Story

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Full Story Big Idea: Doing Indigenous Language As a Kiowa linguist, Dr. Andrew McKenzie studies the scientific and social side of language, and shares what he is doing to help save it in his Big Idea essay. Full Story

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Full Story Kansas 1972: Only You Learn about the Kansas roots of Smokey Bear, New Deal public works programs, the environmental movement, and a Rawlins County mural. Full Story

Ranchers and Students Discuss Tallgrass Prairie

Full Story Kansas 1972: Think Globally, Act Locally Episode 4 of the "Kansas 1972" podcast revisits the fight against a proposed nuclear waste site and efforts to preserve the tallgrass prairie. Full Story

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Full Story Water, Water Everywhere Water is a powerful force. It carved the rolling hills and limestone ledges of the Flint Hills. But what happens when the water runs out? Full Story

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Full Story Big Idea: Turning Land Acknowledgements into Action…In a Good Way Dr. Alex Red Corn (Osage Nation), assistant professor at K-State University, writes that land acknowledgements need to be paired with action in order to have an impact. Full Story

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Full Story Roses are Red, Violets are Blue A new Speakers Bureau presentation looks at Kansas poets. Full Story

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Full Story Kansas 1972: Women on the Move Kansas was the seventh state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment on March 28, 1972. Hear how the ERA was ratified in Kansas and the challenges it faced after ratification. Full Story

Humanities Kansas 50th Proclamation 2022

Full Story By Proclamation: 50 Years of Humanities Kansas Governor Laura Kelly proclaimed 2022 as the 50th Anniversary of Humanities Kansas, making it the most recent in a five-decade long history of gubernatorial proclamations supporting the humanities. Full Story

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Full Story The Smithsonian is coming to Kansas! Six communities to host "Voices & Votes: Democracy in America" in 2023-2024 Full Story

The ERA in Kansas

The new episode of Kansas 1972 looks at the fight for and against the ERA in Kansas

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Full Story Big Idea: American Indian Students Define Success in Their Own Terms The new episode of Kansas 1972 looks at the fight for and against the ERA in Kansas Full Story

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Full Story Kansas 1972: Ramp It Up! The new episode of Kansas 1972 looks at the fight for and against the ERA in Kansas Full Story

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Full Story We Heard Freedom The new episode of Kansas 1972 looks at the fight for and against the ERA in Kansas Full Story

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Full Story Kansas 1972: Get Up, Stand Up! The new episode of Kansas 1972 looks at the fight for and against the ERA in Kansas Full Story

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Full Story Big Idea: Story as Medicine The new episode of Kansas 1972 looks at the fight for and against the ERA in Kansas Full Story

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Full Story Words of Wisdom The new episode of Kansas 1972 looks at the fight for and against the ERA in Kansas Full Story

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Full Story Welcome to Kansas 1972! Welcome to Kansas 1972, the new podcast that tells stories of Kansas’s connections to national events in 1972 and how it was in this time and place that Humanities Kansas was created. Listen to the series introduction. Full Story

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Full Story Kansas 1972: From a Seed Ideas Grow Welcome to Kansas 1972! This episode looks at the founding of Humanities Kansas (then the Kansas Committee for the Humanities) in 1972 and the cultural climate of Kansas in the 1970s. Full Story

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Full Story Back to '72 in '22 The Kansas 1972 podcast celebrates the 50th anniversary of Humanities Kansas and the dynamic year it was founded. Full Story

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Full Story Big Idea: Confronting the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools Eric P. Anderson (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) writes about how the cultural and moral injury inflicted by Indian boarding schools, like Haskell Institute, impacted generations of families and still reverberate today. Full Story

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Hotline: Holidays at the All-Electric House

Andrew Gustafson, Curator of Interpretation at the Johnson County Museum, shares the history of the All-Electric House that resides inside their facility and gets a holiday makeover each year.

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