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Humanities Links
Current Grant
Projects Supported by KHC
- Arts in Prison,
Inc., Kansas City ($8,675) for Sentenced to Sing,
a documentary film project featuring the Lansing Correctional
Facility's "East Hill Singers," the only inmate chorus
in the nation to perform outside prison walls. Margie Friedman,
project director.
- Confucius
Institute at the University of Kansas, Overland
Park ($7,150) for the 2009 Kansas City Chinese Film Festival.
A film festival featuring classic and contemporary cinema
from China. Bilingual discussions in English and Mandarin follow
each film. Sheree Willis, project director.
- Department
of Social Sciences, Emporia State University, Emporia
($5,387) for The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium.
Lincoln scholars examine Lincoln's legacy during the Lincoln Bicentennial.
Brian Craig Miller, project director.
- Kansas Center for the
Book, Topeka ($5,000) for Kansas Reads...The
Virgin of Small Plains, humanities programs offered in conjunction
with the one-book/one-state reading and discussion of The
Virgin of Small Plains by Kansas author Nancy Pickard. Carol
Barta, project director.
- KPTS,
Wichita ($8,550) for Country School: One Room - One Nation,
a documentary film exploring the history and lingering impact
of Midwestern one-room schools. Kelly Rundle, project director.
- Mennonite
Church USA Historical Committee,
North Newton ($3,485) for General Conference Mennonite Church
Records Cataloging, a project to organize, catalog, and archive
the records of the General Conference Mennonite Church from 1968
to 2002. John Thiesen, project director.
- Nemaha County
Historical Society, Inc., Seneca
($3,500) for Settling Nemaha County - Phase II, a project
to inventory and preserve quilts, maps, clothing, hats, and military
uniforms in the museum's textile collection. DarlAnn Rial, project
director.
- Porubsky Film Foundation, Topeka ($8,402)
for C. W. Porubsky's Deli and Tavern Documentary Film,
a documentary film exploring the history behind the grocery store
in Topeka's Little Russia neighborhood. Matthew Porubsky, project
director.
- Richmond Community Museum Association, Richmond
($1,200) for Preserve and Share Historical Photograph Collection
of the Richmond, Kansas Community Museum, a project to catalog,
preserve, and provide public access to approximately 500 photographs
of the rural Kansas community from the 1870s to the 1940s. Pat
Vining, project director.
- Votaw Colony Museum, Inc., Coffeyville ($6,860)
for Reconnection III, a public history event in Manhattan
reconnecting descendents from African American colonies, Exodusters,
and Liberian emigrants. Seminars on African American history and
Kansas history will be offered. Nat Fitz, project director.
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 Center
for the Book, Topeka
- Kansas Children's Service League,
Manhattan
- Kansas Firefighters Museum
and Memorial, Wichita
- KPTS, Wichita
- KTWU, Washburn
University, Topeka
- Kauffman Museum,
North Newton
- Kirwin City Library
- Lane County Historical Museum, Dighton
- Lansing Historical Museum,
Lansing
- Lawrence Community
Mercantile
- Lawrence-Douglas
County African American Oral History Project
- 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
- Southeast Kansas Farm History Center, Parsons
- 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
- Wichita State University
Libraries, Wichita
- William Inge Festival
Foundation, Independence
- Wild West Historical Foundation, Inc., Oakley
- Wilson County
Historical Society, Fredonia
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