Stories for All: A Digital Storytelling Project for the Twenty-First Century brings together over forty Kansas-based partner projects dedicated to gathering marginalized and suppressed histories, interconnecting them, and sharing them widely through digital media.
Stories for All, a partnership between the Hall Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas, is supported by a major grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Explore the Projects
“I, Too, Have a Voice”: Authentic Stories from the Brown v. Board Experience in Topeka, Kansas
“Unsettled Lawrence”: Challenging Collective Memory of Settlement Through the Oral and Public Histories of Unhoused Populations in Lawrence
Who Gets To Parent?
Untold Stories: Former Enslaved Americans Who Sought Freedom in Lawrence, KS
The Chicano Movement in Kansas
Survivors Speak: Centering Survivor Autonomy in Digital Storytelling
Queer Voices
The Queer Narratives Festival
Kansas City’s Culturally Diverse Communities and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Oral Histories
{B/qKC}: a Black queer digital archive
Finding La Yarda: A digital storytelling art installation
Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms
Untold Stories
Invested Stayers: Portraits of Teachers who Thrive in Challenging Times
Kansas: An Eclogue
Las Colonias: The Housing of Poverty in Modern Americas
Our Tomorrows
Pa k’u’x / Desde el centro / From the Center
Police Brutality Song
Preserving the History and Contributions of Interprofessional Practice and Education
History of Black Writing (HBW)
Stories of African-American Life in Lawrence
Tell Me a Story
Under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (GLBTQ) People in Kansas
Voices of the Displaced
Voices of Dementia
An Era of Rights: Kansas City’s Struggle for Equality, 1950-1980
beautiful ashe: memoirs of a sweet black boy & other poems
BLINK!
Building Black Kansas City
Building Interdisciplinary Stories with the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art
Coming to the Heartland
Connecting our Community to Its Past through Digital Resources
COVID-19 in the news: Community coverage of a global event
Digital Douglas County History
Emmett Till Memory Project
GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs
Storytelling is central to the human experience. Through stories, we reveal who we are and what we value, as individuals and as cultures. Stories connect us to one another and to our pasts. Yet many stories remain ignored or silenced, and they often divide us, in part because there is so little interchange among approaches to storytelling rooted in diverse cultures and histories.
Stories for All brings into conversation digital projects that represent a wide range of traditions, histories and goals, sharing a common investment in social justice. Together we will address the opportunities, challenges, ethics, and politics of storytelling in the digital era.