Kansas's history, from Bleeding Kansas to modern political struggles, reveals a state constantly redefining freedom and setting national trends.

Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event that showed how polarized the nation had become over slavery. An event that ...

They’d lived through a bitter conflict between Jayhawkers and border ruffians, and one between the North and the South. They’d seen the bloody birth of a state — and the breakup and reconstruction of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - January 8, 1861. Just weeks before Kansas was officially admitted to the Union, President James Buchanan delivered his final message to Congress defending the use of federal ...

As part of East Tennessee Historical Society’s Brown Bag Lecture Series, Ed Bearrs will present “Bleeding Kansas” at noon Wednesday in the auditorium of the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay ...

This story is the second of three in the series “Border Tales,” which chronicles the unique hostility between Mizzou and Kansas ahead of their football game Saturday. It dates back to at least the ...