Skip Navigation
       
Get Involved Grants & Programs About Contact Donate
 
Get Involved
Overview
Attend an Event Request a Speaker Kansas Stories Humani-TEES Take Action! Support the Humanities. Ways to Give to Humanities Kansas Our Impact Donate

How can you join the movement?

We are leading a movement of ideas across Kansas. Learn about the many ways you can connect with Kansans and Kansas stories.

Get Involved

Upcoming Events

All Events
Grants & Programs

Grants

Action Grants Humanities For All Grants Culture Preservation Grants

Programs

Speakers Bureau Declaration at 250 Kansas Folklife: Celebrating Kansas Traditions The Future of Kansas History Summit History Makers: The Future is Now Talk About Literature in Kansas Museum on Main Street Past Programs

Explore Initiatives

Declaration at 250
Declaration at 250
Folklife collage with Kansas Folklife Celebrating Kansas Traditions title
Kansas Folklife: Celebrating Kansas Traditions
About
Overview
Our Purpose Our Impact Our Staff Board of Directors Careers Our Mission and Vision Media Resources Our History Timeline

We believe stories carry our culture and ideas change the world

Our innovative programming, grants and partnerships spark conversations and generate new ideas.

About Us
Contact Donate
 

Get Involved

Attend an Event Request a Speaker Kansas Stories Humani-TEES Take Action! Support the Humanities. Ways to Give to Humanities Kansas Our Impact Donate

How can you join the movement?

We are leading a movement of ideas across Kansas. Learn about the many ways you can connect with Kansans and Kansas stories.

Get Involved

Upcoming Events

All Events
 

Grants & Programs

Grants

Action Grants Humanities For All Grants Culture Preservation Grants

Programs

Speakers Bureau Americans Declaration at 250 Kansas Folklife: Celebrating Kansas Traditions The Future of Kansas History Summit History Makers: The Future is Now Talk About Literature in Kansas Museum on Main Street Past Programs

Explore Initiatives

Declaration at 250
Declaration at 250
Folklife collage with Kansas Folklife Celebrating Kansas Traditions title
Kansas Folklife: Celebrating Kansas Traditions
 

About

Our Purpose Our Impact Our Staff Board of Directors Careers Our Mission and Vision Media Resources Our History Timeline

We believe stories carry our culture and ideas change the world

Our innovative programming, grants and partnerships spark conversations and generate new ideas.

About Us
 

Explore Kansas Stories

All People Places Nature The Big Idea Literature
two men playing soccer 

From Football to Futbol

Produced by Justicia, Inc. and Via Dolorosa Films.

Full Story
Two men being interviewed a radio station Full Story People   In Their Own Words: Mexican American Vietnam Era Veterans American Legion Post #213 in Kansas City, Kansas, recorded 13 oral histories with veterans as part of the Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War initiative. Full Story Kansas Freedom Fighters Full Story People   African American Soldiers in the Civil War: A Kansas Story African American Midwest Documentary Project and the Nicodemus Historical Society partnered to create the "Kansas Free Fighters" documentary, with the support of a Humanities for All grant. Full Story Porubsky Grocery Sign Full Story People   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. Full Story Five Flags Title Card Full Story Places   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. Full Story
Tsutsui Godzilla   Full Story Humanities vs. Godzilla Godzilla is 70! Johnson County Community College’s Billington Library is celebrating this monster milestone in September with the Godzilla Friday Film Series. Full Story
Basketball History   Full Story Oil and Gold: The McPherson Globe Refiners Basketball Story Experience a Kansas basketball team’s triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Full Story
La Yarda Rendering   Full Story Searching for La Yarda Short documentary film that explores the Mexican railroad community of La Yarda in East Lawrence, which was destroyed by a flood in 1951. Full Story
Kima Mora Full Story   The Power of Women Las Nuevas Adelitas: The Power of Women oral history and short film explore the historical and cultural contributions of Mexican American women. Full Story
Crossroads: Change in Rural America Full Story   Crossroads: Change in Rural America A six-stop exclusive Kansas tour of a Smithsonian traveling exhibition presented by Humanities Kansas. Full Story
The Road to Santa Fe title card Full Story   Convergence of Cultures 200 years ago, the Santa Fe Trail opened two-way commerce with Mexico, impacting the people who lived and traveled along the route. Full Story
black and white photo of the McPherson Globe Refiners team  

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
Mariachi Estrella Full Story   Mariachi Estrella: Ad Astra Per Aspera Catch a glimpse of Kansas sports history with short documentaries about Kansas basketball at the Olympics and futbol in Garden City. Full Story Stafford County's Glass Plate Negatives Project Full Story   Preserving History with Thousands of Glass Plate Negatives Catch a glimpse of Kansas sports history with short documentaries about Kansas basketball at the Olympics and futbol in Garden City. Full Story Brown v. Board Mural and Painters Full Story   Make Your Mark Catch a glimpse of Kansas sports history with short documentaries about Kansas basketball at the Olympics and futbol in Garden City. Full Story test Full Story   Kinsley's Patterns of Change Catch a glimpse of Kansas sports history with short documentaries about Kansas basketball at the Olympics and futbol in Garden City. Full Story Strugglers Hill Video Project Full Story   Strugglers Hill Neighborhood Catch a glimpse of Kansas sports history with short documentaries about Kansas basketball at the Olympics and futbol in Garden City. Full Story Talk About Literature Book Discussion in Newton, Kansas Full Story   Talk About Literature Kansas in Newton, KS Catch a glimpse of Kansas sports history with short documentaries about Kansas basketball at the Olympics and futbol in Garden City. Full Story
The Way We Worked Video Project Full Story Places   Smithsonian Exhibition: The Way We Worked Humanities Kansas' partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street program brings Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibitions to small and rural communities in the state. Full Story Volland Full Story Places   Volland Memories: The Kratzer Films Longtime merchant and photographer Otto Kratzer documented 20th century life in the Flint Hills community of Volland, KS. Full Story Uncommon Ground Full Story Places   Uncommon Ground: A Century of Bartlett Arboretum The Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine has been an oasis on the plains for generations of Kansans. Learn about its revival under the care of original Dixie Chick Robin Macy and the "Soil Sisters." Full Story Quindaro Full Story Places   Quindaro Produced by Northeast Cooperative Council, Inc., Kansas City, and filmmaker Jefferson Edward Donald. Full Story
Lansing Historical Museum 

The Kansas State Penitentiary: An Institution and a Neighbor

What does it mean to be a community? Residents of Lansing talk about the impact of having a prison in their town.

Full Story

 

Kansans Have
Joined the Movement

Support the Humanities

Funds donated support grants, programs and community projects across Kansas.

 
 
Donate
Get Involved Attend an Event Request a Speaker Kansas Stories Spark a Conversation Our Impact Ways to Give
Grants & Programs Humanities For All Grants Culture Preservation Grants Museum on Main Street Speakers Bureau TALK
About Our Purpose Our Impact Our Staff Board of Directors Careers Media Resources
Contact (785) 357-0359 6425 SW 6th Ave.
Topeka, KS 66615-1099

SIGN UP FOR E-NEWS

Join the Movement

Follow

 
Privacy Policy

  |  

Terms of Use

  |  

Board Member Portal

©2026 Humanities Kansas · 501(c)(3) - EIN: 48-0800085 · All Rights Reserved

Website by Imagemakers