Kansas history


The Religion in Kansas Project

Overview

The Religion in Kansas Project is an open access digital archive that creates and curates online collections of oral histories, digitized ephemera, and digital exhibitions relating to religious experience and diversity in Kansas. Kansas is religiously a microcosm of the nation, with a history reflecting its inhabitants' varied roots and a rich present-day diversity of religious experience. At first glance, Kansas' religious environment may appear homogeneous, but the diversity of Kansas religious experience is deep and multifaceted.

Dyche's panorama, an exhibit of taxidermy animals mounted in a natural setting

Overview

A historic first and a celebrated highlight of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, the massive Panorama created by KU professor Lewis Lindsay Dyche, originally depicted groups of North American mammals in their native surroundings. Now exhibited in the KU Natural History Museum, the Panorama shows a 360-degree-view of species situated among various landscapes, such as the Rocky Mountains & the Midwestern plains.