At the height of the American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. On this episode we revisit our conversation with Timothy Egan about his book, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them.

Sarah Maslin Nir and Raymond White Jr.'s join us to discuss their new book, 'The Jockey & Her Horse' which is inspired by the true story of the first Black female jockey, Cheryl White, who raced to the finish line on her horse, Jetolara.

Nahvied Mahdavian joins us to talk about his new graphic memoir, "This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America".

What happens when beauty intersects with horror? Jehanne Dubrow joins us to talk about her newest nonfiction collection, Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity.

We're joined by MIT historian Tanalis Padilla, to discuss the indecent in 2014 at a rural college in Mexico where six people were killed and 43 young men disappeared without a trace.

We're joined by Eric Peterson and Will Weber to talk about the unsolved murder, as well as The Utah Investigative Journalism Project. We also present another segment from the podcast 'Empty Clouds.'

There is a new exhibit at the USU Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art called Facing Fire: Art, Wildlife and the End of Nature in the New West. Last Saturday, a cross-disciplinary panel of artists from the exhibit, policy makers, and a firefighter discussed fire in the west, and we're joined by three of those panelists today.

Utah State University Sociology professors Christy Glass and Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde belong to a team of researchers taking a closer look at race in the NFL, and today they join us to discuss their recently published study titled, 'The Paradox of Integration: Racial Composition of NFL Positions from 1960 to 2020.'

We’re presenting a very special edition of Access Utah today, Lee Austin returns to host the program! We're joined by Erica Walz, owner and publisher of "The Insider," and Torrey mayor Mickey Wright about the October 14 total annular eclipse of the sun.

On this episode we're joined by Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books. We’ll hear excerpts from some of my favorite interviews with: singer-songwriter Janis Ian; and professor, author and search and rescuer Scott Hammond.