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Hotline: Winter Reading Recommendations
Miranda Ericsson, Readers Librarian for the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, gives some fun winter reading recommendations.
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Kansas 1972: Voices of Vietnam Veterans
This episode features stories from Kansans who served in the Vietnam War during the early 1970s and how their services affects their lives today.
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Kansas 1972: Get Up, Stand Up!
In the early 1970s, Kansans advocated for change on campuses, in high schools, and in the grocery aisles through sit-in, protests, and boycotts.
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