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Prairie Journal — 220 episodes

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1

Scott Simon: Ulysses S. Cat

2

Ian Shaw, The End of the Dalton Gang

3

2026 Kansas Legislative Recap

4

Kansas 250 Bookshelf -- Nature and Outdoors, Part Two

5

Mary Roach

6

Kansas 250 Bookshelf -- Nature and Outdoors

7

The People's House

8

Petroglyphs of Kansas

9

Before the Curtain Falls: Eisenhower's Farewell Address

10

Prairie Journal: Kansas 250 Bookshelf

11

Prairie Journal: Kansas 250 Bookshelf

12

Prairie Journal: Stories from the Phog

13

Prairie Journal: The Rhino Keeper

14

Prairie Journal: KU Coaching Legend Marian Washington

15

Kansas 250 Bookshelf: Love Your Community!

16

Kansas 250 Bookshelf: Love Your Community!

17

America 250: In Pursuit

18

Britney Lewis, Blood Moon

19

Topeka's Constitution Hall

20

Kansas Matters

21

Kansas 250 Bookshelf

22

Full Circle Sustainability

23

Governor Kelly's State of the State Address, Analysis

24

Lindsay Metcalf, Tomatoes on Trial

25

Audrey Coleman, Dole Spring Preview

26

Bill Kurtis, Whirlwind

27

A Very Merry Prairie Journal

28

A Year of KPR's Community Spotlight

29

The Arc of Kansas Politics

30

Candice Millard: Death by Lightning

31

Dennis Garcia: Las Madres

32

KPR Community Spotlight: Good Shepherd Homecare and Hospice

33

Kansas History Museum Set to Reopen

34

Here to Help: Master Gardener Debbie Zabel

35

The 2026 Midterms, One Year Out

36

The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker

37

Remembering Rachel Hunter

38

Voices from No Kings

39

Robert Rebein, The Last Rancher

40

Bill Kurtis, Whirlwind

41

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, The Magic Eye

42

Matthew Algeo, NYC's Secret Subway

43

KPR Community Spotlight: Prairie Paws Animal Shelter

44

Hope and the Winds of Grief

45

Kansas Book Festival

46

Bill Kurtis: My Life Reporting the News

47

Bob Dole's 1990 Trip to Kosovo

48

Watkins Museum: The Americans

49

Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind

50

Ear Hustle

51

Up From Dust: Kayakers vs. River Pollution

52

Dr. Walt Menninger: Like What You Do

53

Bolstering Elections Initiative

54

Bill Moyers on Presidents, Politics, and Working for LBJ

55

Coffeyville Kansas and the End of the Dalton Gang

56

Liberating Lawrence: The Fight for Gay Rights on Campus

57

Meet Morning Edition host Matthew Algeo

58

Free State Festival, Matthew Algeo

59

Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas

60

Johann Hari, Stolen Focus

61

2025 Kansas Notable Books Preview

62

No Stone Unturned Foundation

63

2025 Kansas Notable Books Preview

64

Nghiem Tran, We're Safe When We're Alone

65

Mary Louise Kelly, Becky Ozier Schulte, Ada Limon

66

Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War

67

KPR Presents: Brian Daldorph, I've Been Fighting This War Within Myself

68

Jenn Bailey, Henry Like Always

69

KPR Presents: On the Hunt for Kansas Mushrooms

70

Sitting Pretty, Rebekah Taussig

71

Reform and Reaction: The Arc of Kansas Politics

72

Remember the (First) Ladies!

73

Karen Russell, The Antidote

74

Roadside Geology of Kansas, Grief Said 'Have a Seat'

75

Felipe Torres Medina, Taylor Kay Phillips

76

Coach Marian Washington

77

Exactly How Much Power Does an American President Have?

78

Proclaiming the Good News

79

Topeka 50-50-1 Protests

80

Flint Hills Breadbasket

81

Doomed by Blooms

82

Kevin Willmott Film Festival

83

Former Kansas Governors Sebelius, Hayden

84

Kansas Poems: Peg Nichols, Diane Sorensen

85

Rebel Women Mural, Historic Kansas Roadsides

86

KPR Community Spotlight

87

Kansas Legislature Kicks Off 2025 Session

88

"Dear Kansas" Challenge

89

Kansas Poet Laureate Traci Brimhall

90

Parable of the Sower

91

A KPR Christmas Carol

92

Nghiem Tran, YWCA, Nikki Giovanni

93

The Jayhawk: The Story of KU's Beloved Mascot

94

SugarPlum, Music Theatre Kansas City

95

Interior Chinatown

96

Sarah Brightman, A Christmas Symphony

97

KPR Presents: Bill Kurtis

98

Kansas City's Montgall Avenue

99

James Montgomery and His War on Slavery

100

The Haunted States of America

101

Fran Borin, The Spirit of Quindaro

102

Liberating Lawrence: LGBTQ History at KU

103

KPR's Live Day

104

Beyond the Ballot: The 2024 Kansas Elections

105

Greg Jackson, History That Doesn't Suck

106

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon

107

Thom Shankar, Age of Danger

108

KU Theatre: Indecent

109

Hope and the Winds of Grief

110

"Tree of Life" Play Premieres in KC

111

Kansas Book Festival, Sarah Edgerton, Tree of Life

112

The Chicken Sisters, KJ Dell'Antonia

113

Sasha Issenberg, The Lie Detectives

114

On Swift Horses, Dole Fall Preview

115

Lawrence Community Spotlight: Lawrence Community Orchestra

116

Mulvane Celebrates 100 Years, plus Kansas Speaks Out

117

Kingdom Quarterback

118

The Good, the Bard, and the Ugly

119

Great Reads from Great Places

120

Without Warning, The Deadliest Tornado in Kansas History

121

Dan Wildcat, On Indigenuity

122

Alex Grecian, Brian Daldorph

123

Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

124

From Martha Washington to Dr. Jill Biden: First Ladies Get Their Due

125

White Hot Hate

126

Rolf Potts & Kate Benz

127

Free State Festival

128

General Philip Breedlove, KU Security Conference

129

A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms

130

KPR Presents: Kansas Poet Laureate Traci Brimhall

131

KPR Presents: Candice Millard, River of the Gods

132

KPR Presents: Brown v. Board at 70

133

Stories for All Festival Highlights Digital Storytelling

134

'Hot Times' Documentary to be Featured at KU Climate Teach-in

135

KU to Hold Global Climate Teach-In

136

KPR Presents: Age of Danger

137

KPR Presents: Katie Sowers

138

KPR Presents: National League of Cities Kicks Off 100-City Tour in Lawrence

139

KPR Presents: Governor Kelly and a Healthier Political Discourse

140

KPR Presents: Brothers of the Dust

141

KPR Presents: African American Topeka Before & After Brown

142

KPR Presents: A Sneak Peek at Jazz in the Evening

143

KPR Presents: Kathleen Wilford -- Cabby Potts, Duchess of Dirt

144

KPR Presents: A Visit to the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum

145

KPR Presents: Roxie Yonkey, Secret Kansas

146

KPR Presents: Becky Blades, Start More than You Can Finish

147

KPR Presents: Ira Glass and "Seven Things I've Learned"

148

KPR Presents: A Guide to Midwestern Conversation

149

KPR Presents: Washburn Professor Produces Documentary about Iowa Caucuses

150

KPR Presents: Governor Kelly's State of State Address, GOP Response

151

KPR Presents: Top Kansas New Stories of 2023

152

A Very Merry KPR Presents 2023

153

KPR Presents: Community Spotlight on Harvesters

154

KPR Presents: Kevin Merida, The Future of Journalism

155

KPR Presents: Elizabeth Bunce, Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity

156

KPR Presents: Mike Graves, Human Shadow

157

KPR Presents: Ice, Amy Brady

158

KPR Presents: Kevin Willmott on "The 24th"

159

KPR Presents: The Day After, 40 Years Later

160

KPR Presents: On Indigenuity

161

KPR Presents: Kingdom Quarterback

162

KPR Presents: MotherFreakingHood, A Musical Comedy

163

KPR Presents Book Club: Dracula

164

KPR Presents: Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

165

KPR Presents: October at KU's Dole Institute of Politics

166

KPR Presents: Kansas Speaks Out, Poems in the Age of Me, Too

167

KPR Presents: Justina Neufeld, Justa's Escape

168

KPR Presents: Candice Millard, River of the Gods

169

Meet Joe Blubaugh, KPR's New Statehouse Reporter

170

KPR Presents: The Deadliest Tornado in Kansas History

171

KPR Presents: Ice -- A Cool History of a Hot Commodity

172

KPR Presents: Kansas Book Festival

173

KPR Presents: Book Celebrates 50 Years of Walnut Valley Festival

174

KPR Presents: Folk Music on KANU

175

KPR Presents: Celebrating 70 Years of KANU, Part 2

176

KPR Presents: Celebrating 70 Years of KANU

177

KPR Presents: Delano Lewis

178

KPR Presents: Kevin Merida, What's Ahead for Journalism?

179

KPR Presents: How Wheat Shaped the World

180

KPR Presents: The Perfume Thief

181

KPR Presents: Dole Landmark Celebration

182

KPR Presents: Trent Lott, Tom Daschle

183

KPR Presents: Running Out, Lucas Bessire

184

KPR Presents: The Greatest Thing, A Story of Buck O'Neil

185

KPR Presents: Nixon -- The Last Liberal Republican?

186

KPR Presents: Secret Kansas

187

KPR Presents: Kevin Willmott, No Place Like Home

188

KPR Presents: Free State Festival

189

KPR Presents: Grandma in a Sunbonnet

190

KPR Presents: Ada Calhoun, Also a Poet

191

KPR Presents: Grant Snider, One Boy Watching

192

KPR Presents: The Bender Family Murders of the 1870s

193

KPR Presents: A Visit to the New Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum

194

KPR Presents: A Conversation with "Amelia Earhart"

195

KPR Presents: Remembering Joyce Thierer as Calamity Jane

196

KPR Presents: Justin Wingerter, Four Shots in Oskie

197

KPR Presents: Nicole Perry, Policing Sex in the Sunflower State

198

KPR Presents: Taylor Kay Phillips, A Guide to Midwestern Conversation

199

KPR Presents: Becky Blades, Start More Than You Can Finish

200

KPR Presents: Harry Belafonte

201

KPR Presents: Danny Caine, Picture Window

202

KPR Presents: Cheryl Unruh, Gravedigger's Daughter

203

KPR Presents: Megan Kaminski, Quietly Between

204

KPR Presents: Field Journal, Santa Fe Trail

205

Dole Institute Spring Update

206

How Wheat Shaped the World

207

KPR Presents: Capturing Saddam

208

KPR Presents: NPR's Juana Summers

209

KPR Presents: Remembering Judith Heumann

210

KPR Presents: White Hot Hate

211

KPR Presents: A Conversation with Eric McHenry

212

KPR Presents: Letter to Martin

213

KPR Presents: Kate McIntyre

214

KJ Dell'Antonia

215

KPR Presents: Dole Institute of Politics Spring Preview

216

KPR Presents: Kansas Poet Laureate Traci Brimhall

217

KPR Presents: Kansas Post-Election Conference

218

KPR Presents: Top Kansas News Stories of 2022

219

A Very Merry KPR Presents

220

KPR Presents: Holiday Highlights from KANU