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Articles with keyword "history"

Manuscript

Feature

The Ubiquitous Book

The rise of America's culture of print.

Image of family in Shawnee, Kansas.

Statement

A Common Story

Kansans tell their diverse stories.

East African slaves aboard the Daphne, a British Royal Navy vessel

Feature

Gross Injustice

The slave trade by the numbers.

David Livingstone, circa 1865.

Feature

Livingstone in a New Light

Long indecipherable letters, written in ink made from crushed seeds, are now readable through spectral imaging.

My Way, quilt, 1971 by Nell Hall Williams, 83” x 73”

Statement

The Art of Survival

Quilts travel from Gee's Bend.

Brother Arnold Hadd enters Chosen Land’s 1794 Meeting House.

Statement

Preachers of Peace

Shakers share their faith in Maine.

Curio

Of Stevedores and Book Slingers

Mention the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and what comes to mind are workers heaving bales along a waterfront, operating straddle carriers shipside, or driving winches above break bulk c

Curio

Hey, Who You Callin' A Jacobin?

First of all, they are not even French. Second, they’re hardly household names.

Julie Mulvihill, Executive Director of the Kansas Humanities Council

In Focus

Kansas's Julie Mulvihill

Kansas's Julie Mulvihill travels the state stumping for the humanities.

Duane W. Roller, professor emeritus of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University

IQ

Impertinent Questions with Duane W. Roller

On the elusive Cleopatra.