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Historian Richard Norton Smith returns to the University of Kansas for the final installation of the 2013 Dole Presidential Lecture series. This week's KPR Presents is the third in this three-part series, focusing on our nation's first three presidents. This week: Richard Norton Smith, the first director of the Dole Institute of Politics, and Bill Lacy, the Dole Institute's current director, look at Thomas Jefferson.

On this edition of Conversations, Wendy Ellin talks with host Dan Skinner about “Working from Home...How’s That Working You? - Clean Up Your Mess, Set Up…

(Image courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society)August 21, 2013, marks the 150th anniversary of Quantrill's Raid and the sacking of Lawrence. We'll hear an "1863 Commemorate Lawrence" panel discussion on Quantrill's Raid, featuring Steve Nowak of the Watkins Museum of History, Fred Conboy of Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area, Jeremy Neeley of Missouri State University, and Ric Averill of the Lawrence Arts Center. We'll also tour the Watkins Museum new permanent exhibit, which opens this weekend.

Thousands of Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., this week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King Junior's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. At 23 years old, John Lewis was the youngest speaker at that 1963 event. Fifty years later, Congressman John Lewis is still fighting for equality, and was given a place of honor at this week's activities. This week on KPR Presents, we hear from Congressman Lewis, from when he received the 2007 Dole Leadership Prize at the University of Kansas.

All year long, Kansas Public Radio has been celebrating our 60th anniversary. As our year-long celebration winds down, we'll look back on our six decades on the air on this week's KPR Presents. With rare audio from the KPR archives and the Spencer Research Library, we'll hear from people on the air and behind the scenes at your favorite public radio station.

All year long, Kansas Public Radio has been celebrating our 60th anniversary. As our year-long celebration winds down, we'll look back on our six decades on the air on this week's KPR Presents. With rare audio from the KPR archives and the Spencer Research Library, we'll hear from people on the air and behind the scenes at your favorite public radio station. This is the second part of a two-part series; you can hear Part One archived elsewhere on our website.

Next time on KPR Presents, a look at our nation's 36th president, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Mark Updegrove is the director of the Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, and author of Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency. This program is the first of the two-part 2012 Presidential Lecture Series at the University of Kansas Dole Institute of Politics. (Photo credit: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum)

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He's been called one of the five most influential Jewish leaders in the United States, and one of the ten most influential Jewish leaders in the world. Michael Oren stepped down last month after four years serving as Israel's ambassador to the United States. His talk, "Israel: The Ultimate Ally," was the 162nd Landon Lecture at Kansas State University. Oren was born in update New York and raised in New Jersey to conservative Jewish parents; he was appointed ambassador to the U.S. in 2009 by President Benjamin Netanyahu.