Strengthening rural Kansas communities while advancing student learning. Funding engaged research, outreach, and digital scholarship relevant to the Great Plains.
In collaboration with the Riley County Genealogical Society, this project is a series of 10 historical markers related to Manhattan’s past, which will be placed at trailheads along the 9.4 mile path of the Linear Trail.
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This research collection is a digital archive featuring rural Kansas, history, and people conducted by undergraduate students at Kansas State University since 2010 exclusively for the Chapman Center for Rural Studies.
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This award-winning documentary tells the moving story of Emmaus House in Garden City, a place that…
