Kansas's history of 'Bleeding Kansas' offers a lesson on how fragile democracy can be when debate is silenced.
Volunteer Mike Wallen sifts dirt and debris through a dry-screening tripod at the Kansas Historical Society’s archaeological field school, held this year in Lecompton. Just a few stone walls remain of ...
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 led to a violent conflict known as Bleeding Kansas over whether the territory would be a free or slave state. The state has a complicated past that includes both ...
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The shocking true story of how Kansas nearly sparked the Civil War before it even began
Episode six of the eight-part “Kevin Costner’s The West” documentary is called “Bleeding Kansas.” “Kevin Costner’s The West” airs at 9 p.m. Monday, June 16, on the History Channel. LIVE STREAM: Fans ...
On an April afternoon in Lawrence, Kansas, where abolitionists and pro-slavery forces clashed over a century and a half ...
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Bleeding Kansas - John Brown - US History
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 ...
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.
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