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Oil and Gold: The McPherson Globe Refiners Basketball Story
Experience a Kansas basketball team’s triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Proud to be Rural
As attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people continue to change across the nation, Independence is a leader of inclusion among small towns.
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The Lyons' Share
Jan Lyons didn’t set out to become a role model, but that’s exactly what happened when she was elected president of the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) 25 years ago.
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Trailblazers
Jan Lyons didn’t set out to become a role model, but that’s exactly what happened when she was elected president of the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) 25 years ago.
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Hotline: The March of the Amazon Army
Jan Lyons didn’t set out to become a role model, but that’s exactly what happened when she was elected president of the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) 25 years ago.
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Hotline: Hazel Gomez
Jan Lyons didn’t set out to become a role model, but that’s exactly what happened when she was elected president of the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) 25 years ago.
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Hotline: Shifting Kansas Dialects
Jan Lyons didn’t set out to become a role model, but that’s exactly what happened when she was elected president of the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) 25 years ago.
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Hotline: Books for Women's History Month
Jan Lyons didn’t set out to become a role model, but that’s exactly what happened when she was elected president of the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) 25 years ago.
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In Love and War: J.C. Johnston Collection of Civil War Pensions
Jan Lyons didn’t set out to become a role model, but that’s exactly what happened when she was elected president of the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) 25 years ago.
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Hotline: The Memorial of Emmett Till
Dave Tell, Professor of Communications Studies at the University of Kansas, tells the story of the struggle to memorialize Emmett Till.
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Hotline: Inspiration and Craft
Poet, writer, and author Mercedes Lucero reflects on the connection between inspiration and craft.
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Hotline: First Cow
Tom Prasch, Professor of History at Washburn University, explores themes of settlement in 1820s Oregon in his review of the new film “First Cow.”
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Buffalo Soldiers in the Heart of America
Posted to forts along the Santa Fe Trail, the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry provided protection for travelers on the trail, but they were not immune to racial tensions of the day.
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Hotline: "Who But the Lord"
John Edgar Tidwell, professor emeritus of English from the University of Kansas reads a poem by Langston Hughes.
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