On this week's show: Funding higher education in Kentucky; The Choctaw Academy; The making of a Cherokee legend; and, the daring publisher of an African-American newspaper in Jim Crow-era Lexington. 
Our guests: 
• Eastern Kentucky University President Michael Benson 
• Bill Goodman with author Christine Snyder on the Choctaw Academy of Scott County 
• University of Kansas Professor Devon Mihesuah on Cherokee legend Ned Christie 
• Lexington author Joseph Anthony on his historical fiction,  A Wounded Snake