For much of the past several decades, one issue dominated Kansas politics: school finance. Education scholar Bruce Baker talks about school finance, equity, and what Kansas got right.

As Kansans prepare to head to the polls August 2, we look back at the Kansas election of 1972 and explore the legacy of former Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller. It's the latest episode of "Kansas 1972."

Two Kansas children's book authors take on political protest: the Wichita Dockum lunch counter sit-in of 1958 and the farm crisis of the 1970s and '80s.

Can a comic strip help you lead a more mindful life? Grant Snider of Wichita is the author of The Art of Living, as well as a new children's picture book, One Boy Watching.

Meet Myrtle Hardcastle, the heroine of Premeditated Myrtle, winner of the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery and a Kansas Notable Book.

Today on the KPR Presents Book Club: best-selling author Maggie Shipstead joins us to talk about Great Circle. We'll also visit "Familiar Faces," the newest exhibit at the Watkins Museum of History in downtown Lawrence.

We mark the 50th anniversary of Title IX with the "Mother of Women's Sports at KU," Marlene Mawson, who launched the women's intercollegiate athletics program at the University of Kansas.

The story of a Kansas Army wife, and how her search for information about her MIA husband in Vietnam helped shape a political movement.

What was behind a spike in UFO sightings in Kansas 50 years ago? Find out on the latest episode of "Kansas 1972." Also, a conversation with John Roy Price, author of "The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy."

Lawrence filmmaker Stephen Lerner is launching a series of meetings across Kansas to confront "climate anxiety." Also, the Space Race comes to Kansas on the latest episode of "Kansas 1972."