Welcome

The Kansas Humanities Council creates, sponsors, and promotes humanities programs across Kansas. Through the humanities — history, literature, philosophy, and related areas — we gain understanding of where we've been, who we are, and what we've valued over time and across generations.

New Harmonies in Lawrence

New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music is at the Watkins Community Museum of History in Lawrence June 27 through August 10. Click here to find out about more.

Click here for more information about the New Harmonies Kansas Tour.

Journey Stories Hosts Announced

Journey Stories, a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition, tours Kansas 2009-2010. Kansas was selected as one of only 5 states to host this premier exhibition examining the history of American transportation. The exhibit will spend 10 months touring the sunflower state with stops at the McPherson County Old Mill Museum in Lindsborg, the Glasco Community Foundation in Glasco, the Geary County Historical Society and Museum in Junction City, the Parsons Public Library in Parsons, the Prairie Museum of Art and History in Colby, and the Atchison County Historical Society in Atchison.

Journey stories - tales of how we got "here" - are as American as apple pie. Why did our ancestors come to America? Why did our families choose Kansas as home? The exhibition combines America's transportation history (trails, trains, wagons, cars, airplanes, and trucks) with the innovative ways people have used transportation to find their place. The exhibit includes stories of people coming in search of promise in a new country; stories of individuals and families relocating in search of fortune, their own homestead, or employment; the harrowing journey of Africans and Native Americans forced to move; and, of course, fun on the open road.

2008 "Bright Dreams, Hard Times" Chautauqua

Click here to see the Beloit Chautauqua photo gallery.
Click here to see the Lawrence Chautauqua photo gallery.

The 2008 Bright Dreams, Hard Times: America in the Thirties Chautauqua is over for the summer. Thank you to the Solomon Valley-Highway 24-Heritage Alliance and the City of Beloit for hosting the 5-day event in Beloit. More than 500 people enjoyed the daily workshops, Youth Chautauqua Camp, The Dust Bowl museum exhibition, and evening portrayals by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Senator Huey Long, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, author Zora Neale Hurston, and humorist Will Rogers. Another thank you to the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau for hosting the event in Lawrence. More than 3,000 people attended this unique summertime experience in South Park.

For more information about Chautauqua in 2009 and 2010, click here or visit the Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua website, www.knchautauqua.org, or call 785/357-0359.

Planning for the Future

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Our Mission

The Kansas Humanities Council promotes understanding of the history and ideas that shape our lives and strengthen our sense of community.

Kansas Humanities Council
112 SW 6th Ave., Suite 210
Topeka KS 66603-3895

(785) 357-0359 phone
(785) 357-1723 fax
info@kansashumanities.org

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