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Frank Wickware: From Girard, Kansas to Schenectady, New York
Phil Dixon’s visit to Girard for a Humanities Kansas Speakers Bureau presentation begins an unforgettable week commemorating a Negro League legend from Kansas: Frank E. Wickware.
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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.
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Celebrating Our Stories: Topeka Trailblazers
The Our Stories traveling exhibition weaves together the stories of African American Topeka, past and present.
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For the Love of the Prairie
A four-part interview series is preserving the stories of Kansas farmers and ranchers.
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Hotline: Marymount College
Dr. Patricia Ackerman, freelance writer and professor of language arts at Kansas State University, shares the holiday traditions of Marymount College on the Humanities Holiday Hotline.
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Hotline: The Legend of the Blue Light Lady
Generations of Hays residents have stories about seeing or seeking the ghostly "Blue Light Lady." Jim Hoy tells the story of Elizabeth Polly and how she became the "Blue Light Lady" of Hays.
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From Wichita to Hollywood: Honoring Hattie McDaniel
Generations of Hays residents have stories about seeing or seeking the ghostly "Blue Light Lady." Jim Hoy tells the story of Elizabeth Polly and how she became the "Blue Light Lady" of Hays.
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In Praise of Mystery: The Poetry of Ada Limón
Generations of Hays residents have stories about seeing or seeking the ghostly "Blue Light Lady." Jim Hoy tells the story of Elizabeth Polly and how she became the "Blue Light Lady" of Hays.
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A Rendezvous with History
Generations of Hays residents have stories about seeing or seeking the ghostly "Blue Light Lady." Jim Hoy tells the story of Elizabeth Polly and how she became the "Blue Light Lady" of Hays.
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Humanities vs. Godzilla
Generations of Hays residents have stories about seeing or seeking the ghostly "Blue Light Lady." Jim Hoy tells the story of Elizabeth Polly and how she became the "Blue Light Lady" of Hays.
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A New Portrait of Stafford County
Generations of Hays residents have stories about seeing or seeking the ghostly "Blue Light Lady." Jim Hoy tells the story of Elizabeth Polly and how she became the "Blue Light Lady" of Hays.
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Snapshots of History
Generations of Hays residents have stories about seeing or seeking the ghostly "Blue Light Lady." Jim Hoy tells the story of Elizabeth Polly and how she became the "Blue Light Lady" of Hays.
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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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Voices and Votes: Out of the Mud
Belleville is known by its slogan “The Crossroads of America,” thanks to the efforts of newspaper editor and good roads advocate A.Q. Miller.
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Hotline: The Cultural Importance of Indigenous Food
Listen as Devon Mihesuah talks about the cultural importance of indigenous foods.
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Hotline: Ghosts in Literature
Kim Stanley of McPherson College discusses the role of ghosts in Western literature, from The Odyssey to Hamlet to The Haunting of Hill House.
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Voices and Votes: "The Most American Thing in America"
Theodore Roosevelt called Chautauqua “the most American thing in America.” Like many Kansas communities, Winfield played a vital role in this turn-of-the-20th century movement of ideas.
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