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Local Americana singer-songwriters Sky Smeed, Colin Halliburton and KC banjo player Kelly Hunt (accompanied by fiddle player Stas Heaney) recorded some…

February 24, 2018

Joseph Califano, Jr. spent 30 years in Washington, serving at the Pentagon, and in the Cabinet as US Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Among his…

Martin Puchner is a professor of Drama, and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of prizewinning books covering…

Week of March 11, 2018: lessons that Presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt, and others have for the current White House occupant. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and journalist David Von Drehle are the featured guests at this year's Bennett Forum on the Presidency.

Week of March 18, 2018: what our Founding Fathers really thought about religion and politics. Matthew Stewart takes issue with the idea of America as a "Christian nation" in his book, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic.

Week of March 25, 2018: the popular detective V.I. Warshawski travels to Kansas in Sara Paretsky's latest thriller, Fallout. Join Kaye McIntyre for a conversation with Lawrence's own best-selling author Sara Paretsky.

Did you know that the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery houses the oldest public art collection in Topeka? Brea Black is an Art Librarian for the Topeka & Shawnee…

In this elementary school children's book, Lady Lucy's Dragon Quest, Lady Lucy overcomes gender discrimination and stereotypes to save the day by changing a fire breathing dragon into a water spouting dragon. On this edition of Conversations, Karen Gross joins us to talk about her series of books featuring Lady Lucy. Gross is an author, educator, and higher education consultant based in Washington, D.C.00000184-7fa9-d6f8-a1cf-7fad06260006