150 years ago, the people of Labette County, Kansas, made a grisly discovery: the bodies of a dozen victims of the Bender Family. Susan Jonusas is the author of Hell's Half Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier.

This week on KPR Presents: KU perspectives on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, featuring faculty from KU Departments of History, Political Science, and Slavic Languages and Literature. This panel was held March 2 and sponsored by KU's The Commons and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

A story of love and luck that travels from rural Kansas to the casinos of Las Vegas and the racetracks of California. "On Swift Horses" is the debut novel by Kansas native Shannon Pufahl. Also, "Kansas 1972" explores the Chicano rights movement in Topeka.

We meet Audrey Coleman, the new director of the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. We'll also visit with Dole Fellow Bob Blaemire, who is leading the Dole Institute's Spring Discussion Series, "Giants of the Senate."

We travel back to the 1970s, the "February Sisters," the fight for women's rights at the University of Kansas. We'll also hear about an exhibit at the Watkins Museum of History on the struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1970s.

A conversation with Sarah Henning of Lawrence, author of The Princess Will Save You and The Queen Will Betray You. We'll also revisit a conversation with the late Robert Day, author of The Last Cattle Drive.

Gay Paris, perfume, intrigue, Nazis: join us for a conversation with Timothy Schaffert, author of The Perfume Thief.

From the story of a small town's hospital to the British author of The Father Brown Mysteries: we'll hear from two writers on this week's KPR Presents -- Brian Alexander, author of The Hospital, and John Tibbetts, author of The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton.

This week on KPR Presents, we travel back 50 years to "Kansas 1972." It's the first episode in a new podcast from Humanities Kansas, looking at this pivotal year in American and Kansas history.

It's a conversation with three Emporia writers: Tracy Million Simmons and Cheryl Unruh, creators of "105 Meadowlark Reader," and poet Kevin Rabas, author of "More than Words."