Episodes

  • Giving Boot Hill the Boot
    Nov 10 2025

    FHSU graduate student Sarah Keiss joins Hollie to discuss Hays, Kansas's Boot Hill Cemetary.

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    23 mins
  • Meet Dr. Andrew Howard
    Oct 27 2025

    Hollie visits with FHSU History's newest faculty member, Dr. Andrew Howard.

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    24 mins
  • Dodge City's Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
    Oct 13 2025

    FHSU History M.A. student David Solis visits with Hollie about the history of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dodge City, Kansas, and the Feast of our Lady of Guadalupe in Dodge City.


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    17 mins
  • Dr. Albert Yeager and the Quest to bring Tomato Plants to the Plains
    Sep 29 2025

    Horiculture historian and FHSU history alumni Jeremy Gill joins Hollie to discuss Dr. Albert Yeager's research on tomatoes and how he brought the Bison Tomato to the plains.

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    19 mins
  • Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatnik Archive
    Sep 15 2025

    Dr. Amber Nickell, Sarah Keiss, David Solis, and Chelsea Kiefer join Hollie Marquess to discuss their digital humanities project "Written by Heart's Blood: Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatik Archive."

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    38 mins
  • Fort Campbell and Disabled Dependents
    Apr 3 2025

    Michelle Moore, a junior history major at Fort Hays State University online, joins Hollie to disucss the bridge between Fort Campbell and Disability Research Institutes. Michelle, who lives at Fort Campbell, discusess how in the 1970s, this fort became a desired duty station for families whose children needed accomodations in classrooms and/or medical intervention for disabilities.

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    18 mins
  • Nisei Women in Japanese Internment
    Mar 31 2025

    Junior history minor Grace McCord joins Hollie to discuss Nisei Women in Japanese Internnment camps in the US during WWII. Second-generation Japanease -American women, or Nisei women, faced significant challenges during WWII in Japanese Internment camps, but their experiences also foreced a shift in the structure of their families, allowing them some measure of independence from traditional expectations. Through education, vocational training, and military volunteer opportunities, Nisei women displayed agency and resilence.

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    22 mins
  • Lizzie Borden- Gender and Religion at the Trial
    Mar 17 2025

    In episode three of season 7, sohpomore history education major Riley Kershner joins Hollie to talk about the infamous trial of Lizzie Borden and the role that gender and religious biases played in the investigation, trial, and media coverage.

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    14 mins