As Lecompton’s Constitution Hall celebrates its 170th anniversary this year, Eric Smallwood said it’s a miracle this historic site reached the milestone. While the two-story building, which is now a ...

The term “Bleeding Kansas” is a pre-Civil War term referring to the conflict between anti-slavery and pro-slavery factions in the Kansas Territory. Residents of Kansas were to be allowed to choose the ...

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 ...

Discover the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Learn how "popular sovereignty" sparked Bleeding Kansas and accelerated the American Civil War in this article. History is often made of complicated dates and ...

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 ...

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 ...

America again flirts with its own “Bleeding Kansas”—a cycle of partisan violence and defiance where lawless zealots are hailed as patriots and the rule of law bleeds away.