From the Kansas State Historical Society website:

"Kansas history holds many harrowing storm stories, none more tragic than that of 10-year-old Dean Thomas. His untimely death eventually led to a donation of his childhood belongings, including these overalls."

From the Kansas State Historical Society website:

"An African American man living in rural Kansas amazed family and friends with his ability to make sculptures inside bottles, embodying a form of folk art known as bottle whimsy."

From the Snag Learning Website:

"Climb into the cockpit of an exact replica of the fabled Spirit of St. Louis to experience a riveting, hour-by-hour reenactment of the danger, doubts, and fatigue endured by the young Charles Lindbergh on his record-shattering flights across the Atlantic. From exclusive, rarely-seen archival footage to the high suspense of Lindbergh’s down-to-the-wire race against a formidable field of foreign competitors to be first across the Atlantic, it’s an unforgettable encounter with a true American icon."

From the Snag Learning website:

"Commissioned by the United Nations for the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the U.N. The story of how the world’s greatest architects representing many of the original member nations came together and created an architectural symbol for global Peace."

From the Kansas State Historical Society website:

"A decade before the end of segregation, a kind woman and a little girl broke through racial barriers in Topeka. This handmade African American doll symbolizes a bond between whites and blacks in the Mudtown neighborhood during the 1940s."

From the Bowery Boys website:

"Millions of years of space rocks, fossils, artifacts and specimens are housed in New York's world famous natural history complex on the Upper West Side. But few know the whole story about the museum itself.

Residents of New York tried a few times to establish a legitimate natural history venue in the city, including an aborted plan for a Central Park dinosaur pavilion. With the American Museum of Natural History, the city had a premier institution that sent expeditions to the four corners of the earth.

Tune in to hear the stories of some of the museum's most treasured artifacts and the origins of its collection. And find out the tragic tale of Minik the Eskimo, a boy subject by museum directors to bizarre and cruel lie."

From the Kansas State Historical Society website:

"Imagine a world in which the living commune with the dead. Most people today find that a bizarre concept, but 100 years ago it was a fun pastime for the Wichita family who used this Ouija board.

Behind-the-scenes: Staff members describe creepy artifacts in our collection."

From the Kansas State Historical Society website:

"J.P. Morgan was a powerful man who held vast wealth and controlled finance and transportation around the United States. Should one man be so powerful? Political cartoonist Albert Reid didn't think so, and expressed his distaste in this antitrust cartoon."

From the Kansas State Historical Society website:

"Politics was a rough business in the 1930s. Kansas governor Alf Landon knew the stakes were high, so he traveled with this lead lectern during the 1936 presidential campaign."