From President Dwight Eisenhower to ICBM bases to the made-for-TV movie, The Day After -- the surprisingly large role of Kansas during the Cold War.

As 2021 draws to a close, we look back at the top Kansas news stories of the year with help from the Kansas News Service.

Celebrate the season with your friends at Kansas Public Radio! Join the KPR staff for stories and songs of the season on "A Very Merry KPR Presents!"

It's the final installment in our 2021 Kansas Notable Book series, with two books that take us back to Kansas in the late 1800s, plus a picture book by Wichita cartoonist Grant Snider.

From Russell, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., we look back at the life and career of former U.S. Senator Bob Dole, who passed away Sunday at the age of 98.

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

November 27 is "Small Business Saturday." This week on KPR Presents, it's a plea to shop local. Danny Caine is the author of How to Resist Amazon and Why.

The Education of Corporal John Musgrave is the new memoir by Vietnam veteran, writer, and activist John Musgrave of Baldwin. Join us for this encore broadcast of Musgrave's powerful 2017 conversation with Kaye McIntyre.

Theaters across Kansas will join with theaters across the country and around the world next weekend in "All Together Now!" Join us for this global celebration of musical theater with Ric Averill of Theatre Lawrence and George Harter of Musical Theater Heritage.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is the KU Common Book for fall 2021 and the latest selection in the KPR Presents Book Club. Join us for the radio version of KPR Presents Book Club with Professors Bob Hagen, Jennifer Moody, and Ray Pierotti of the University of Kansas and Dan Wildcat of Haskell Indian Nations University.