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Magic, Mystics, and Murder
A new Speakers Bureau topic looks at the story of Spiritualism.
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Kansas 1972: Voices of Vietnam Veterans
This episode features stories from Kansans who served in the Vietnam War during the early 1970s and how their services affects their lives today.
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The Best We Could Do
Ashland City Library's oral history project on local Vietnam veterans includes "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir by Thi Bui.
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Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War
To commemorate 50 years since the escalation of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Humanities Kansas launched a multidimensional, statewide oral history project in partnership with the Library of Congress.
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True Crime in Kansas: The Mystery of the Benders
An upcoming lecture in Pittsburg separates myth, lore, and legend from the facts.
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Kansas 1972: Returning to Roots Music
In the Fall of 1972, around 10,000 people descended on the Winfield fairgrounds to enjoy a long weekend of camping, crafts, and bluegrass music. 50 years later, the festival has created a community around bluegrass.
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Flood of Memories
In the Fall of 1972, around 10,000 people descended on the Winfield fairgrounds to enjoy a long weekend of camping, crafts, and bluegrass music. 50 years later, the festival has created a community around bluegrass.
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Kansas 1972: Decision 1972
In the Fall of 1972, around 10,000 people descended on the Winfield fairgrounds to enjoy a long weekend of camping, crafts, and bluegrass music. 50 years later, the festival has created a community around bluegrass.
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Blackbear Bosin, Painter of Songs
In the Fall of 1972, around 10,000 people descended on the Winfield fairgrounds to enjoy a long weekend of camping, crafts, and bluegrass music. 50 years later, the festival has created a community around bluegrass.
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Kansas 1972: To the Stars
In the Fall of 1972, around 10,000 people descended on the Winfield fairgrounds to enjoy a long weekend of camping, crafts, and bluegrass music. 50 years later, the festival has created a community around bluegrass.
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Kansas 1972: Women on the Move
In the Fall of 1972, around 10,000 people descended on the Winfield fairgrounds to enjoy a long weekend of camping, crafts, and bluegrass music. 50 years later, the festival has created a community around bluegrass.
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By Proclamation: 50 Years of Humanities Kansas
In the Fall of 1972, around 10,000 people descended on the Winfield fairgrounds to enjoy a long weekend of camping, crafts, and bluegrass music. 50 years later, the festival has created a community around bluegrass.
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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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Kansas 1972: Ramp It Up!
Why was the construction of Wescoe Hall at the University of Kansas halted in 1972? Learn how Roger Williams used the courts to make the building and the rest of Kansas accessible to wheelchair users.
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Kansas 1972: Get Up, Stand Up!
In the early 1970s, Kansans advocated for change on campuses, in high schools, and in the grocery aisles through sit-in, protests, and boycotts.
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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.
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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.
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