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Big Idea: Pancho Villa in History, Pop Culture, and Collective Memory
Dr. Marco Macias on the transformations of collective memory.
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Big Idea: On Kansas, sentiment, memory, and obsession, which are all really variants of the same thing
Gary Jackson on how poetry is an act of reclamation.
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Big Idea: Discourse for a Better Community
Joy Murphy explores the need for Kansas museums to engage in community conversations, even when the topics may be tough and controversial.
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Big Idea: Beyond Brown: Mexican Struggles for Equality in Kansas
Valerie Mendoza looks at the ways the Latino communities banded together to fight discrimination and demand equal protection under the law, focusing special attention on Kansas examples.
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Big Idea: Stories of Resilience and Determination: African American Genealogy Research in Kansas
Sherri Camp, genealogy librarian and author, explores the unique challenge of African American genealogy research in Kansas.
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Big Idea: Story as Medicine
Rachel C. Jackson (Cherokee Nation) explores the power of words in Indigenous storytelling and poetry, including the work of Joy Harjo, in her Big Idea "Story as Medicine."
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Big Idea: Confronting the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
Rachel C. Jackson (Cherokee Nation) explores the power of words in Indigenous storytelling and poetry, including the work of Joy Harjo, in her Big Idea "Story as Medicine."
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Big Idea: Natives Making News: Toward a More Authentic and Ethical Representation of American Indian Identity, Issues, and Individuals
Rachel C. Jackson (Cherokee Nation) explores the power of words in Indigenous storytelling and poetry, including the work of Joy Harjo, in her Big Idea "Story as Medicine."
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Big Idea: The Current State of Indigenous Storytelling
Rachel C. Jackson (Cherokee Nation) explores the power of words in Indigenous storytelling and poetry, including the work of Joy Harjo, in her Big Idea "Story as Medicine."
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Big Idea: Top 10 Influential African American Musical Artists
Rachel C. Jackson (Cherokee Nation) explores the power of words in Indigenous storytelling and poetry, including the work of Joy Harjo, in her Big Idea "Story as Medicine."
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Big Idea: My Top 10 Most Influential African American Songs
Rachel C. Jackson (Cherokee Nation) explores the power of words in Indigenous storytelling and poetry, including the work of Joy Harjo, in her Big Idea "Story as Medicine."
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It's Time to Expand Our Views on Peacemaking
Rachel C. Jackson (Cherokee Nation) explores the power of words in Indigenous storytelling and poetry, including the work of Joy Harjo, in her Big Idea "Story as Medicine."
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Big Idea: It's Time to Understand the History of Black Voting Rights
What happened after the 15th Amendment was ratified? Dr. Kim Warren explains what the 15th Amendment did and did not do for African American voting rights.
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Big Idea: Coupling Jim and Jane Crow
Jim Crow impacted African Americans throughout the twentieth century. So did its accomplice Jane Crow. Dr. Ayesha K. Hardison describes how Jane Crow affected Black women's lives and shaped their writing and activism.
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Big Idea: It’s Time to Recognize the History of Race and Baseball in Kansas: The Good, The Bad, and the Magnificent
Beginning in the 1920s, the Kansas City Monarchs went on barnstorming tours of Kansas and surrounding states, competing with other Negro League teams as well as town teams.
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Big Idea: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Gordon Parks
Kirk Sharp shares the story of Fort Scott-native Gordon Parks and how he captured the inequalities of American life in the mid-1900s through iconic images of the civil rights movement and segregation.
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Pandemic, Interracial Strife, and the Saving Grace of Humanities
John Edgar Tidwell writes, "As we weather the current pandemic and interracial strife, we should turn to humanities’ inherent saving grace."
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