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A People's History of Kansas City — 66 episodes

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Kansas City’s Flood of 1951

2

The marvelous Maud Wagner, the tattooed lady of Kansas

3

America's favorite popsicle: the Bomb Pop

4

Why Kansas City won the World Cup

5

Carving Kansas City out from limestone

6

How women made the U.S. a soccer powerhouse

7

Reclaiming the right to jaywalk

8

When jaywalking became a crime

9

Leila’s Hair Museum lives on

10

Lamar Hunt and the dream of U.S. soccer

11

Are tornado urban legends like the ‘Tonganoxie Split’ real?

12

This mural defies fascists

13

A mystery in Marion: Who was behind the newspaper raid?

14

PHKC Live! Test your Missouri history knowledge with us

15

Bob Dole, the ADA, and the power of collective activism

16

The immigrants who made us a soccer city

17

A publishing house for lesbians, by lesbians

18

Can Kansas City repair what Highway 71 destroyed?

19

Rebuilding Kansas City's relationship with its public schools

20

Why Kansas City’s football team became the Chiefs

21

How popcorn and movie theaters met

22

Searching for Nora Holt’s stolen music

23

Want a hit song? Give Dana Suesse 12 minutes

24

How a Kansas City 'shoot-out' created the modern GOP

25

Exposing the Veiled Prophet

26

A librarian’s history of the Westside

27

Kansas City’s champion cakewalker

28

The Ozark Music Festival of 1974

29

Saving the Kansas prairie

30

The Walker Walkouts

31

Where cassette tapes never died

32

Hydrox, the original Oreo

33

PHKC live! A podcast party for America's original sandwich cookie

34

The occupation that saved a Wyandot cemetery, revisited

35

Mariachi Estrella will always be stars

36

50 years of Kansas City hip-hop

37

The salad days of Wish-Bone dressing

38

The strange case of Mr. Swope and Dr. Hyde

39

Alvin Brooks, Kansas City’s ultimate civil servant

40

Annie Fisher’s beaten biscuit empire

41

Making the Lake of the Ozarks

42

Kansas City’s first Pride parade

43

When Independence destroyed a Black neighborhood

44

The Golden Arches in Black Kansas City

45

How White Castle started America’s burger wars

46

Overlooked: Niko Quinn’s truth

47

From slavery to fortune in Independence

48

PHKC live! Go behind the scenes with Suzanne Hogan and Mackenzie Martin

49

An American Dream at Parade Park

50

Unraveling the legend of Doc Annie

51

A toast to the birthplace of sliced bread

52

Kansas City's raunchy blues queen

53

How Kansas City blazed a path for gay liberation

54

Hot 103 Jamz & the birth of Black radio

55

100 years of the Plaza

56

A radical enclave called Womontown

57

Crock-Pots for the people, from Hungry For MO

58

9:29 The Minutes That Moved Kansas City

59

The battle over Mickey Mouse

60

Where Missouri got its name

61

Kansas City's fierce women's rights champion

62

The first known female Buffalo Soldier

63

Kansas City's barbecue king

64

Was Kansas City almost named Possum Trot?

65

Trailer: A People's History of Kansas City, Season 2

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The occupation that saved a Wyandot cemetery