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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.
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A New Portrait of Stafford County
The "Hall of Portraits: Documenting our Diverse Legacy", supported by an HK Humanities for All grant, is a photography and film project at the St. John Homecoming Hall and Museum in Stafford County, KS.
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Snapshots of History
Using a Culture Preservation Grant from HK, the Anderson County Historical Society Museum set out to catalog and digitize Philip Strain's photographs, with the help of the community.
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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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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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Hughes and Parks: Renaissance Men
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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Voices and Votes: The 43 Naked Voters of 1858
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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Voices and Votes: Edward P. McCabe, Political Pioneer
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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No Place Like Home
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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Voices and Votes: Respectfully, W.B. Masterson
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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Voices and Votes: The Fight for Indigenous Voting Rights
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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From Then to Now: A Student History of Haskell Indian Nations University
A new exhibition in Lawrence explores the past and present of Haskell Nations University.
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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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