Humanities Kansas has recently awarded $3,000 to the Lincoln County Historical Society to support “Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War,” a new oral history initiative from Humanities Kansas to collect and preserve the stories of Vietnam War veterans in their communities. LCHS president, Kathie Crispin, serves as project director, with the assistance of Bud DeArvil.
Eleven Kansas organizations will participate in the project, which is the second phase of Humanities Kansas’s oral history initiative focused on veterans. In 2018, twelve different communities participated in a similar project and recorded 74 oral histories from Kansas veterans from the Vietnam War. These stories have been archived locally, as well as at the Kansas Historical Society and the Library of Congress Veterans Oral History collection.
Humanities Kansas is an independent nonprofit leading a movement of ideas. Since 1972, HK’s programming, grants and partnerships have documented and shared stories to spark conversations and invite new insights. Together with statewide partners and supporters, HK encourages Kansans to draw on diverse histories, literatures and cultures to strengthen our democracy, communities and connections to one another. Visit humanitieskansas.org.
