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Robin Dunn and Elaine VanDeventer talk about Robin's life as a farmer for the StoryCorps project. The artist(s): Robin Dunn is the owner of Dunn's Landing in Wellsville. Elaine VanDeventer is a close friend and neighbor.

September 19, 2020 (rebroadcast)

In celebration of Black History Month, KPR Presents the Fisk Jubilee Singers, an a capella group that has shared the music of the African-American spiritual with people around the world. The Fisk Jubilee Singers, under the direction of Paul Kwami, performed in connection with the Aaron Douglas Conference sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. Engineer(s): Chubby Smith & Rob Fitzgerald

In celebration of Black History Month, KPR Presents an encore broadcast of Congressman John Lewis. Lewis played a key role in the country’s civil rights struggle in the 1960s, and is currently serving his 10th term in Congress representing the state of Georgia. Lewis received the most recent Dole Leadership Prize, awarded annually by the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. Engineer(s): Kaye McIntyre

As Congress works this week to hammer out the details of reforming our nation's health care system, KPR Presents: Dr. Marcia Nielsen, Vice-Chancellor for Public Policy and Planning at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Nielson spoke at KU's Dole Institute of Politics on October 7, 2009. Engineer(s): Lawrence Bush & Chubby Smith

What happens when you combine a renowned singer-songwriter, the Kansas Poet Laureate, and 62 high school students? Find out on this week's KPR Presents, when we'll hear the latest collaboration between Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Kelley Hunt, including a piece they wrote in partnership with the Lawrence High School A Capella choir, "Dream It All." Kaye McIntyre is your host for KPR Presents, 8:00 Sunday evenings on Kansas Public Radio. Engineer(s): Chubby Smith

Christmas wasn't always the family-centered consumer-oriented holiday it is today. It was celebrated as a rowdy festival of misbehavior for centuries, then was banned by the Puritans, reinvented in the 1820s, and it continues to evolve to this day. Join us 8:00 Sunday evening for Naughty and Nice: A History of the Holiday Season with the American History Guys.

What do the words hickory, skunk, and succotash have in common? They are all "American" English words that found their way into the first American dictionary just over 200 years ago. This week on KPR Presents, Merriam-Webster publisher John Morse talks about that first American dictionary and what words can tell us about our changing society. Engineer(s): Chubby Smith

On this edition of Conversations, Sonia Manzano talks with host Dan Skinner about her book, “A World Together,” published by National Geographic Kids. You…

What makes you happy? Why is happiness so elusive, even among people who seem to have it all? The University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities presents "The Promise of Happiness," by British scholar Sara Ahmed. Engineer(s): KU Media Services