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Stories for All brings together over forty community and University of Kansas partner projects. This page enables you to identify partner projects that interest you and takes you to their websites.

You can search and filter projects by topic, partner, or digital genre. Please contact storiesforall@ku.edu if you have any difficulties.

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“Unsettled Lawrence”: Challenging Collective Memory of Settlement Through the Oral and Public Histories of Unhoused Populations in Lawrence

Rachel Schwaller

Rachel Schwaller

Multi-Term Lecturer University of Kansas

We often tell the history of Lawrence, Kansas from the perspective of settlement in the “great American desert.” Even moments of dis-settlement, such as Quantrill’s Raid, are couched as victorious resettlement. Such a narrative elevates settling (often by white “homesteaders”) while stigmatizing other forms of occupancy as non-settlement.

American Indian Digital History Project

Jason Heppler

Jason Heppler

Research Director, American Indian Digital History Project; Senior Web Developer, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University George Mason University

Kent Blansett

Kent Blansett

Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All University of Kansas

Founded in 2010, the American Indian Digital History Project works with Tribal archives, community members, organizations, and colleges to recover, preserve, and increase free & open searchable access to rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials throughout Native North America. It promotes accurate and responsible research and reporting that focuses on Indigenous nations, communities, and peoples.

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An Era of Rights: Kansas City’s Struggle for Equality, 1950-1980

Jason Roe

Jason Roe

Digital History Specialist Kansas City Public Library

David LaCrone

David LaCrone

Digital Branch Manager, Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library

Katie Sowder

Katie Sowder

Digital History Collections Librarian, Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library

We are beginning a digital history project that will document and analyze the major events and themes of the Civil Rights struggle in Kansas City.

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Bench by the Road Stories: The Stories of the Bench by the Road Project

Carolyn Denard

Carolyn Denard

Founder and Board Chair, The Toni Morrison Society The Toni Morrison Society

Craig Stutman

Craig Stutman

Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, Delaware Valley University Delaware Valley University

The Toni Morrison Society’s Bench by the Road Project has placed benches and accompanying plaques at 32 sites around the world memorializing people and events from African American and African diasporic history. The Society plans to create a digital archive documenting the histories of each of these sites, including audio and video recordings with individuals in the communities where each Bench was placed.

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Building Black Kansas City

Carmaletta Williams

Carmaletta Williams

Executive Director, Black Archives of Mid-America Black Archives of Mid-America

Building Black Kansas City is an oral history project focusing on the African American experience in Kansas City, MO in the mid twentieth century, beginning at the end of World War II. These stories will chronicle the building of Black Kansas City through varying aspects of its culture, collecting and making accessible the voices of individuals who might not otherwise have an opportunity to share their personal stories from a bygone era.

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Building Interdisciplinary Stories with the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art

Joey Orr

Joey Orr

The Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Ryan Waggoner

Ryan Waggoner

Director of Creative Services, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Each academic year, the Arts Research Integration (ARI) at the Spencer Museum of Art organizes an inquiry that encompasses a large spectrum of practitioners across the arts, sciences, and humanities.

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Coming to the Heartland

Marta Caminero-Santangelo

Marta Caminero-Santangelo

Professor of English, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Elizabeth MacGonagle

Elizabeth MacGonagle

Associate Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Focusing on the diversity, adversity, and struggles of Latin American and African immigrants in the Heartland, this initiative asks how the new digital age affects the stories that immigrants tell, as well as the possibilities for their visibility in the wider community.

Community-based Approaches to Sigital Storytelling: Marginalized Women’s Technology Access and Use

Hyunjin Seo

Hyunjin Seo

Professor, Oscar Stauffer Chair in Journalism, and Associate Dean for Research and Development, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Kansas University of Kansas

This project offers education in digital storytelling technology to women transitioning from incarceration. Based on a co-design approach, the program participants will learn and use digital storytelling techniques to tell their own stories of challenges and opportunities related to online privacy and security.

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Connecting our Community to its Past through Digital Resources

Steve Nowak

Steve Nowak

Executive Director, Watkins Museum of History Watkins Museum of History

Will Haynes

Will Haynes

Director of Engagement and Learning, Watkins Museum of History Watkins Museum of History

Sarah Bell

Sarah Bell

Development Director, Watkins Museum of History Watkins Museum of History

Brittany Keegan

Brittany Keegan

Curator of Exhibits and Collections, Watkins Museum of History Watkins Museum of History

In 2022, the Watkins Museum decided to expand its permanent exhibit on Indigenous peoples in Douglas County beyond two exhibit panels. Will Haynes, the museum’s director of engagement and learning, began by forming an advisory group and reached out to representatives of the Kaw Nation, Delaware Tribe, Shawnee Tribe, Osage Nation, and Wyandot Nation.

COVID-19 Stories

Kathryn Conrad

Kathryn Conrad

Professor and Chair of English, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Ani Kokobobo

Ani Kokobobo

Associate Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas University of Kansas

“COVID-19 stories” includes formal narratives, social media stories, snapshots, drawings, or anything else that captures experiences of the pandemic in Douglas County, Kansas. The gathered stories will be collected in a digital, open access medium and together will illuminate the shared vulnerabilities that connect us to each other.

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Digital Douglas County History

Brad Allen

Brad Allen

Executive Director, Lawrence Public Library Lawrence Public Library

Melissa Fisher Isaacs

Melissa Fisher Isaacs

Information Services Coordinator, Lawrence Public Library Lawrence Public Library

The Lawrence Public Library launched this project in partnership with the Watkins Museum of History in 2017. A portal to digital local history, Digital Douglas County History uses Omeka, an open source web-publishing platform, as its framework.

Emmett Till Memory Project poster

Emmett Till Memory Project

Dave Tell

Dave Tell

Professor of Communication Studies and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Twenty-first century attempts to commemorate the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till have been met with persistent vandalism. Born in direct response to that vandalism, the Emmett Till Memory Project is a website and mobile application that preserves the sites and stories of the Till lynching. The ETMP uses GPS technology to take users to the most important sites in the Till story.

GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs

Sylvia Fernández

Sylvia Fernández

(Until December 2021) Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All / (From January 2022) Assistant Professor, Digital Technology and Culture, University of Kansas

Gris Muñoz

Gris Muñoz

Independent writer / Escritora independiente

GeoTestimonios is a living border-community storytelling project that reappropriates personal experiences through testimonies and literary narratives about life in the El Paso-Juárez border region. This work is a collaboration between border poet and author Gris Muñoz and academic and digital humanist Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla.

HBW Staff looking through the publication

History of Black Writing (HBW)

Ayesha Hardison

Ayesha Hardison

Associate Professor of English and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Director, History of Black Writing, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All University of Kansas

Since its establishment in 1983, the History of Black Writing (HBW) has committed to literary recovery work and public programming.

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Las Colonias: The Housing of Poverty in Modern Americas

Bobby Cervantes

Bobby Cervantes

PhD Candidate in American Studies University of Kansas

Scholarly and popular accounts of the U.S.-Mexico border, one of the world’s most contentious geopolitical divides, often depict nearby communities as caught between clashing nations. Yet, such framing obscures both countries’ far-reaching policy collaborations that have structured vast inequality as a condition of local life.

few people and text

Pa k’u’x / Desde el centro / From the Center

Ignacio Carvajal

Ignacio Carvajal

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All University of Kansas

Nela Tahay

Nela Tahay

K’iche’ instructor, Nahualá, Sololá, Guatemala

Willy Barreno

Willy Barreno

Founder, Ki’kotemal Tijob’al, Guatemala

Vianna González

Vianna González

Founder, Ki’kotemal Tijob’al, Guatemala

This project serves two main purposes, both of them anchored around Guatemala specifically and Central America in general. The first aim of the project is to create a digital repository dedicated to Maya K’iche’ language learning. K’iche’ is the most widely spoken Mayan language in Guatemala.

a person getting treatment.

Preserving the History and Contributions of Interprofessional Practice and Education

Teri Kennedy

Teri Kennedy

Ida Johnson Feaster Professor of Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research, and Associate Dean, Office of Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research, School of Nursing University of Kansas

IPE@KUMC/KU preserves the history and continuing contributions to interprofessional practice and education (IPE) by The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and The University of Kansas (KU) through a podcast series, oral histories, and archival documents to be preserved in collaboration with the Clendening History of Medicine Library and KUMC Archives. IPE is ultimately about social justice.

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Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms

María Velasco

María Velasco

Professor, Visual Art University of Kansas

Valerie Mendoza

Valerie Mendoza

Independent Public Historian Washburn University

Matt Jacobson

Matt Jacobson

Professor, Film and Media Studies University of Kansas

Donna Rae Pearson

Donna Rae Pearson

Local Historian, Kitchen Table History Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library

“Reclaiming Home” will tell the story of Topeka’s Bottoms neighborhood through oral history, a documentary and art. In the 1950s and ’60s, more than 3,000 Topekans were forced to leave their homes and businesses in the Bottoms district in downtown to make way for new real estate development as part of the Urban Renewal Project.

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Untold Stories

Sarah Jen

Sarah Jen

Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare; Director, Sigler Family Aging Scholars Program University of Kansas

Olivia Sabal

Olivia Sabal

MSW Sigler Family Aging Scholar University of Kansas

Kamri Wolverton

Kamri Wolverton

MSW Sigler Family Aging Scholar University of Kansas

Tobi Barta

Tobi Barta

MSW Sigler Family Aging Scholar University of Kansas

Untold Stories is an arts-based community-action project, seeking to illuminate the experiences of older adults through conversation, collaboration, art, and advocacy.

A church with a sign in front that says "This house is not for sale! All are welcome"

Voices of the Displaced

Nishani Frazier

Nishani Frazier

Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All and Associate Professor of History and American Studies University of Kansas

Amanda Lawson

Amanda Lawson

Assistant Director of Research for the L.I.F.E. Research Lab Miami University

Gentrification, the calculated reclamation of black urban spaces for financially affluent new homeowners, is spreading through black communities across America. After years of economic oppression and deprivation, the black community now stands at the edge of perhaps the greatest community dispersal in its history.