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Prairie Journal
Hosted by Kaye McIntyre · EN
Prairie Journal is an opportunity to showcase high-profile, thought-provoking lectures, discussions and dialogues recorded throughout the region. There are so many fascinating people who come to this area, everyone from Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor to syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts. Prairie Journal is a great way to share some of those lectures with our listeners. We have also been able to expand the program to cover a broad range of topics, including the Kansas Sesquicentennial, the National Day of Listening and the Kansas Reads program sponsored by the State Library of Kansas, just to name a few.
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Laura Moriarty, Sunshine Finds You
1w ago00:57:20Tap to summarizeWe visit with best-selling author Laura Moriarty about her just-released novel, Sunshine Finds You. Also, Robert Rebein's The Last Rancher has been named to the Library of Congress' "Great Reads from Great Places" for 2026. Both these authors join Kaye McIntyre on this week's program.
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Kansas 250 Bookshelf
2w ago00:14:35Tap to summarizeWhat better way to celebrate America 250 than with food? This month's Kansas 250 Bookshelf features Teatime to Tailgates: 150 Years at the K-State Table and Amy Barickman's Vintage Notions.
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2026 Kansas Primary Election
3w ago00:52:35Tap to summarizeKansas voters head to the polls August 4th in the primary. Who's running and what's on the ballot? Washburn University's Bob Beatty joins us to talk about the constitutional amendment on electing Kansas Supreme Court justices, and we hear from the candidates for Kansas governor and U.S. Senate.
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Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death
3w ago00:28:35Tap to summarizeFrom Kentucky to Kansas to New York City in the Gilded Age, journalist-reformer and self-proclaimed "Queen of Bohemia" Zoe Anderson Norris chronicled the lives of immigrants and the poor in her self-published magazine, The East Side.
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Lyda Conley and the Fight to Save a KCK Cemetery
4w ago00:29:01Tap to summarizeThe story of the fight to save a Kansas City, Kansas, cemetery, and the Wyandotte woman who became the first Native American woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. We visit with the editors of "Lyda Conley and the Fight to Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery."
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Rick Atkinson, Dole Lecture
Jul 1300:58:03Tap to summarizeThree-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and author Rick Atkinson gives the 2026 Dole Lecture at the University of Kansas. His latest book, The Fate of the Day, is the second in his Revolutionary War trilogy, The War for America.
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America at 250: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
Jul 500:43:33Tap to summarizeWhat better way to celebrate America 250 than with a cross-country road trip? Dr. Beverly Gage is the author of This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History. She's joined by Dr. Colleen Shogan, former U.S. archivist and CEO of the online history series In Pursuit.
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Free State Festival
Jun 2100:28:55Tap to summarizeMovies, music, and more! It's time for the 2026 Free State Festival, a week-long celebration of independent films taking place June 22nd-28th. Festival director Marlo Angell joins us to talk about this year's FSF theme: The Revolution Will Be at the Movies!
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Soccer: The Boundless Game
Jun 1600:29:01Tap to summarizeThe World Cup is here! Tim Bascom explores the universal appeal of the game in his book "The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Around the World."
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Petticoat Governments in Kansas
Jun 1300:44:21Tap to summarizeIn the late 1880s, Kansas voters did something almost no other state was doing: they elected women to local office. This episode of Per Aspera follows three of those elections: how Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in the United States after being nominated as a joke, as well as wins in Oskaloosa and Baldwin City. Per Aspera is a Kansas history series produced by Kara Heitz and the Kansas 250 Commission.
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