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On this edition of Conversations, Timothy Egan talks with host Dan Skinner about “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them.”

On this edition of Conversations, Jennifer Eastwood talks with host Dan Skinner about a collection of books celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Disney.

On this edition of Conversations, Valentine Low talks with host Dan Skinner about "Courtiers - Intrigue, Ambition and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor."

On this edition of Conversations, Sam Roberts talks with host Dan Skinner about "The New Yorkers – 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City.” Roberts is a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, an obituaries reporter, a former Urban Affairs correspondent at the New York Times, and the author of several books about the history of New York.

On this edition of Conversations, Steve Nowak, Executive Director of the Watkins Museum of History talks with host Dan Skinner about new exhibits. Nowak discusses the focus on Douglas County and Lawrence history that can be found on the third floor of the Museum. The new exhibit explores different themes in Douglas County life, including business, leisure, activism, sports, and more.

On this edition of Conversations, Dr. Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Pirate’s Wife – The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd.” Geanacopoulos is a historian, journalist, and author.

On this edition of Conversations, Greg Melville talks with host Dan Skinner about “Over My Dead Body – Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries.”

On this edition of Conversations, Rossi Anastopoulo talks with host Dan Skinner about “Sweet Land of Liberty – A History of America in 11 Pies.” Anastopoulo is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in “TASTE,” “Saveur,” “Food52,” “Bon Appetit,” and “Eaten Magazine.”

On this edition of Conversations, Tova Friedman talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Daughter of Auschwitz – My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope,” which she co-authored with Malcolm Brabant, an award-winning foreign correspondent.

On this edition of Conversations, Deborah Wiles talks with host Dan Skinner about “Bobby – A Story of Robert F. Kennedy.”