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What can plants teach us about the world around us? Join us for a conversation about the best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, in this encore presentation of the KPR Presents Book Club from November 4, 2021.

This month marks the 150 anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. Join us 8:00 Sunday evening for "Seven Critical Decisions of Gettysburg," with a panel of Civil War historians and experts. The Seven Critical Decisions:(7) Robert E. Lee's decision to invade the North(6) John Reynolds' decision to fight at Gettysburg(5) Richard Ewell's decision not to attach Cemetery Hill and seize Culp's Hill(4) Dan Sickles' decision to move forward into the peach orchard and wheat field(3) Jeb Stewart's decision to ride east of the Army of the Potomac, missing the first day of battle at Gettysburg(2) Robert E. Lee's decision to order Pickett's Charge(1) George Meade's decision not to pursue Lee This panel, which met at the Dole Institute of Politics on June 20th, 2013, included Dr. Terry Beckenbaugh of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Dr. Steve Lauer of the U.S. Army School of Advancd Military Studies, Dr. Ethan Rafuse of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Dr. Jennifer Weber of the University of Kansas History Department, Dr. Debra Sheffer of Park University, and Dr. Kevin Benson of the U.S. Army University of Foreign, Military, and Cultural Studies.

It was a three-way, down-to-the-wire race between A$AP Rocky, ENHYPEN and Bad Bunny to be No. 1 on this week's Billboard 200 albums chart.

Week of September 16, 2018: The best new books by Kansans or about Kansas. Also, "The Great American Read" and how you can help in the search for America's best-loved novel.

Week of January 20, 2019: We walk through Governor Kelly's first State of the State Address, with analysis and context from KPR Statehouse Bureau Chief Stephen Koranda and Washburn University Professor Bob Beatty.

William Allen White and women's suffrage. One of the most prolific writers you've never heard of. And Shakespeare comes to 1930s fascist Europe. It's all on this week's KPR Presents with Kaye McIntyre.

September 3, 2017: the best new books by Kansans or about Kansas. Kaye McIntyre talks with some of this year's Kansas Notable authors before this year's Kansas Book Festival.

Week of April 1, 2018: Basketball legend Byron Scott, formerly of the Los Angeles Lakers, and business executive Charles Norris team up for lessons on and off the basketball court.

The media is a frequent target of President Trump. On this KPR Presents, the press pushes back. Four White House correspondents talk about the importance of a free press in America today in this event sponsored by the Truman Library Institute.

Moral philosopher and public intellectual Kwame Anthony Appiah kicks off KU's Hall Center for the Humanities Summer Speaker Series this week (virtually). In this encore presentation from the KPR Presents archives, we revisit Appiah's 2007 Hall Center Lecture, "Making Sense of Moral Conflict."