PARTNERS
Partner Meetings
March 20, 2023
Wyeth-Tootle Mansion
St. Joseph, MO
May 15, 2023
Bushwhacker Museum
Nevada, MO
July 10, 2023
Baxter Springs Heritage Center and Museum
Baxter Springs, KS
September 18, 2023
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Park
Topeka, KS
November 13, 2023
Carnegie Library/Freedom’s Frontier NHA
Lawrence, KS
November 16, 2022
Carnegie Library/Freedom’s Frontier NHA (via Zoom)
Lawrence, KS
January 22, 2024
Location TBA
March 18, 2024
Location TBA
May 20, 2024
Shawnee Town 1929
Shawnee, KS
July 15, 2024
Location TBA
September 16, 2024
Location TBA
November 18, 2024
Carnegie Library/Freedom’s Frontier NHA
Lawrence, KS
FFNHA Grants
The Freedom’s Frontier Bus on Us grant program helps our partner sites better connect with students and teachers across the region. Designed to cover transportation costs, Bus on Us grants help fund school field trips within the heritage area.
Established to assist qualified partnering organizations with telling the nationally significant stories of the heritage area’s main themes, FFNHA’s Interpretive Grant program awards reimbursable small grants up to $5,000 for projects that interpret your site’s story and connect it to the heritage area’s rich history.
Designed to foster difficult but necessary dialogue, FFNHA’s Discussion Grants help communities better connect with their shared histories by facilitating thought, discussion, and reconciliation.
Discussion Grant projects are now eligible for funding through FFNHA’s Interpretive Grant program. Learn more here.
Other Grants
Visit our Grants page to learn about other grant opportunities for FFNHA partners.
Other Resources
Extraordinary events in Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area forever changed America. In the nineteenth century, the nation turned its eyes to the Missouri-Kansas border, where peoples with diverse definitions of freedom collided, inciting and fueling a Civil War. The impact of these events is forever woven into the nation’s fabric.
Freedom’s Frontier began as a grassroots effort of people just like you, who were concerned about our landscape. They understood that we have an important, nationally significant story to share about shaping the frontier, the Missouri-Kansas Border War, and the enduring struggle for freedom. More than 230 museums, historical societies, and heritage sites partner with us in telling these stories. Join us in our efforts in helping to interpret history that helped shape a nation.
View list of partner sites (A-Z)
View list of partner sites (by county)
Sign our partnership pledge and become an FFNHA partner.
The FFNHA Partner Advisory Group is both self-nominated and staff invited to get representation of a variety of different types of museums and historical societies along with geographic and age distribution throughout the heritage area. The group meets via conference call with staff on a bimonthly basis. The group selects one member from Missouri and one member from Kansas to serve on the Board of Trustees for one year. The group selects a chair to work with FFNHA staff outside of calls.
The members of the group are:
- Alana Smith, Westport Historical Society (Chair)
- Mary Billington, Baxter Springs Heritage Center & Museum (Secretary)
- Carl Brenner, Fort Scott Historic Site – NPS
- Paul Bahnmaier, Lecompton Historical Society
- Sandra Kelly, Johnson County Kansas Heritage Foundation
- Judy Lindquist, Douglass School Project
- Alinda Miller, Historic Lone Jack Battlefield and Museum
- Steve Novak, Watkins Museum of History
- Alexis Radil, Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm Historic Site
- Jennifer Reed, Cass County Historical Society
- Marcia Rozell, Visit Manhattan
- Will Tollerton, Bushwhacker Museum
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