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Humanities Links
Current Grant
Projects Supported by KHC
- KTWU,
Topeka ($16,490) for Sunflower Journeys, 2008, thirteen
half-hour programs related to the history, heritage, and culture
of Kansas. David M. Kendall, project director.
- Freedom's
Frontier National Heritage Area, Lawrence ($6,450)
for Kansas segments of The Road to the Civil War, a documentary
about the pre-Civil War years between 1830 and 1860. Gilles Carter,
project director.
- Confucius Institute
of the University of Kansas, Overland Park ($7,558)
for the Kansas City Chinese Film Festival 2008, a five-film
festival in March 2008 exploring the theme of "Shanghai:
Between the Past and Future." The festival will feature classic
and contemporary films from China and bilingual film discussions
in English and Mandarin. William M. Tsutsui and Sheree Willis,
project directors.
- KPTS, Wichita
($10,000) for Greensburg, a one-hour documentary about
the 2007 Greensburg tornado. Brian Schodorf, project director.
- William
Inge Festival Foundation, Independence ($7,100) for
Humorous Social Criticism, Parody, and Satire as Seen Through
the American Theatre, a four-day event featuring conversations
with prestigious playwrights and film discussions. The 2008 festival
features the work of playwright Christopher Durang. Peter Ellenstein,
project director.
- Wichita State
University Libraries, Wichita ($4,242) for Lewis
and Clark in Indian Country, humanities programs presented
in conjunction with the national traveling exhibition, Lewis
and Clark in Indian Country. Cathy Moore-Jansen, project
director.
- Kansas
Center for the Book, Topeka ($4,295) for Kansas
Reads...In Cold Blood, humanities programs and discussions
about Truman Capote's book In Cold Blood, as part of
a one book/one state project. Emily Sitz, project director.
- The
Concerned Citizens of Old Quindaro, Kansas City ($6,000)
for In Unity There is Strength: The African American Experience,
an exhibit interpreting the history of former slaves who escaped
across the Missouri River to Quindaro Township and the religious,
educational, and business community they established there. Jesse
Hope III, project director.
- Thomas County
Historical Society, Colby ($3,500) for Promoting
a Sense of Place with Digital Images and Audio, a project
to convert audiocassettes and VHS tapes to a digital format. The
video and audio collections document life on the high plains,
interviews with Northwest Kansas World War II veterans, and oral
history interviews with descendants of Thomas County's early settlers.
Sue Taylor, project director.
- Collyer Community
Alliance Association, Collyer ($3,480) for Honoring
Our Immigrant Past, a project to catalog and preserve oral
histories and photographs of Irish, Czech, and Volga German immigrants
and their descendants. The immigrant settlers' photographs and
artifacts will be on display at the Sod House Museum/Visitor's
Center. Donna Malsom, project director
- Greensburg
Convention and Tourism Promotion Committee, Greensburg
($3,500) for Greensburg's EF-5 Tornado Oral Phenomenon,
an oral history project to interview twelve survivors of the catastrophic
May 4, 2007 tornado in Greensburg. Janice Haney, project director.
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Past Grant Recipients & Project
Partners
- Amazing 100 Mile Tourism
Coalition, Wilson
- Barton County Arts Council,
Great Bend
- Baxter Springs
Historical Society
- Belleville Main
Street Program, Belleville
- Black Jack Battlefield
Trust, Douglas County
- Bowlus Fine Arts Center,
Iola
- Bukovina Society of
the Americas, Hays
- BWAKA,
Lawrence
- Center for Great Plains
Studies, Emporia
- Chanute Historical
Society, Chanute
- Chautauqua County Historical & Genealogical Society, Sedan
- Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum,
Arkansas City
- Clark County Historical
Society, Ashland
- Collyer Community Alliance
Association, Collyer
- Concerned
Citizens for Old Quindaro, Kansas City
- Confucius Institute at
the University of Kansas, Overland Park
- DePaul Library, University of
St. Mary, Leavenworth
- Doniphan County
Historical Society, Troy
- Dyck Arboretum of the
Plains, Hesston
- El Centro, Kansas
City
- Finney County
Historical Society, Garden City
- Flint Hills Tourism
Coalition, Emporia
- Ford County Historical
Society, Dodge City
- Fort Hays State University
- Franklin Community
Council
- Franklin County Historical
Society, Ottawa
- Freedom's Frontier
National Heritage Area, Lawrence
- Friends
of the Native American Heritage Museum, Highland
- Greensburg Convention and Tourism Promotion Committee, Greensburg
- Hall Center for the
Humanities, Lawrence
- Harvey County Historical Society,
Newton
- Hays Public Library
- Heartland Orthodox Christian Museum, Topeka
- Heritage
Associates of Jennings
- High Plains Museum,
Goodland
- High Plains Public Radio,
Garden City
- Highland
PRIDE, Highland
- Hillsboro Museums
Department, Hillsboro
- Historic Preservation Partnership of Lyndon, Lyndon
- Hmong Village, Inc.,
Kansas City
- Inman
Museum Association
- Jewish Community Center of Greater
Kansas City
- Johnson County
Museum of History, Shawnee
- Kansas Children's Service League,
Manhattan
- Kansas Firefighters Museum
and Memorial, Wichit
- KPTS, Wichita
- KTWU, Washburn
University, Topeka
- Kauffman Museum,
North Newton
- Kirwin City Library
- Lansing Historical Museum,
Lansing
- Lawrence Community
Mercantile
- Lawrence Public Library
- Leavenworth County
Historical Society, Leavenworth
- Leavenworth
Public Library
- Lucas
Arts & Humanities Council
- Luray Historical Society
- Lyon County Historical
Society, Emporia
- Mahaffie Stagecoach
Stop and Farm Historic Site, Olathe
- Marshall
County Historical Society, Marysville
- Martin & Osa Johnson
Safari Museum, Chanute
- McPherson Convention and
Visitors Bureau, McPherson
- Mennonite
Heritage Museum, Goessel
- Nemaha County
Historical Society, Seneca
- Newman University Milton Center,
Wichita
- Old Cowtown Museum,
Wichita
- Orphan Train National
Museum & Research Center, Concordia
- Osborne County Genealogical and Historical Society, Osborne
- Parsons
Historical Society Museum
- Pittsburg Public Library, Pittsburg
- POW Camp
Concordia Preservation Society
- Raymer Society for the
Arts, Lindsborg
- Santa Fe Trail Center,
Larned
- Smoky Hill Museum,
Salina
- Smoky Hills Public
Television, Bunker Hill
- Sociedad Hidalgo, Shawnee
- Solomon Valley-Highway 24-Heritage
Alliance, Glasco
- Stafford
County Historical and Genealogical Society, Stafford
- Thomas County Historical
Society, Colby
- Topeka
Collegiate School
- University of Kansas Center
for East Asian Studies, Lawrence
- University of Kansas Center for Research, Lawrence
- Wamego Historical
Society
- Watkins Community Museum
of History, Lawrence
- William Inge Festival
Foundation, Independence
- Wild West Historical Foundation, Inc., Oakley
- Wilson County
Historical Society, Fredonia
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