Explore Kansas Stories
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.
Full Story
Full Story
The Big Idea
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.
Full Story
Full Story
People
Voices and Votes: Respectfully, W.B. Masterson
Bat Masterson’s election to Ford County sheriff by three votes shows that ballots, not bullets, shaped the frontier politics of the Wild West.
Full Story
Full Story
People
Voices and Votes: The Fight for Indigenous Voting Rights
Elizabeth Bender (Ojibwe) and Dr. Henry Roe Cloud (Winnebago) were leaders in the fight for Indigenous educational and voting rights.
Full Story
Full Story
People
Voices and Votes: Edward P. McCabe, Political Pioneer
Edward P. McCabe of Nicodemus became the first African American to hold statewide office when he was elected state auditor in the 1880s.
Full Story
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.
Full Story
Full Story
Big Idea: Harriet Tubman, Freedom's Conductor
Sherri Camp, genealogy librarian and author, explores the unique challenge of African American genealogy research in Kansas.
Full Story
Full Story
Kansas 1972: Voices of Vietnam Veterans
Sherri Camp, genealogy librarian and author, explores the unique challenge of African American genealogy research in Kansas.
Full Story
Full Story
Kansas 1972: Rattlebone Hollow
Sherri Camp, genealogy librarian and author, explores the unique challenge of African American genealogy research in Kansas.
Full Story
Full Story
Kansas 1972: Uprooted
Sherri Camp, genealogy librarian and author, explores the unique challenge of African American genealogy research in Kansas.
Full Story
Full Story
Remembering the Forgotten
Sherri Camp, genealogy librarian and author, explores the unique challenge of African American genealogy research in Kansas.
Full Story
Full Story
The Best We Could Do
Sherri Camp, genealogy librarian and author, explores the unique challenge of African American genealogy research in Kansas.
Full Story
Full Story
The Big Idea
Big Idea: Democracy As a Matter of the Spirit
Dr. Randal Jelks discusses his book, "Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America."
Full Story
Full Story
The Big Idea
Big Idea: How Should We Honor Someone's Military Service?
Listening to and engaging with veterans about their military experience is the most meaningful way to thank someone for their service.
Full Story
Full Story
People
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.
Full Story
Full Story
People
True Crime in Kansas: The Mystery of the Benders
An upcoming lecture in Pittsburg separates myth, lore, and legend from the facts.
Full Story
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.
Full Story