The Compromise of 1850 brought relative calm to the nation. Though most blacks and abolitionists strongly opposed the Compromise, the majority of Americans embraced it, believing that it offered a ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Make plans for the next few Sundays to gain new insight into our state’s history. Constitution Hall State Historic Site in Lecompton is ready to launch its next Bleeding Kansas ...

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 Republicans finally have their nominee for the U.S. Senate. As much of the party establishment hoped, U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall defeated former secretary of state Kris Kobach and two other ...

South Carolina Rep. Preston Brooks attacks Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate chambers on May 22, 1856, in this illustration. (U.S. Senate) Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner risked ...

2018-11-04T10:50:05-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e6c/20181104105427003_hd.jpgMilitary history Professor Harry Laver argued that the 1856 battles in Kansas ...

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 ...

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has a prairie-wide smile, a friendly manner and an abiding hatred of his state's income tax. He pushed an unprecedented cut for individuals and small businesses through the ...

IT’S BEEN A MYSTERY FOR OVER 150 YEARS. WHAT BECAME OF THE FAMILY KNOWN AS THE BLOODY BENDERS AND THE TEN PEOPLE OR MORE THEY KILLED. KMBC NINE’S JACKSON KURTZ TRAVELED TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS, ...

The "Bloody Benders" murdered at least 11 travelers who stopped during the early 1870s at the small inn those two men and two women ran at their home near Cherryvale in Labette County in southeast ...

But this battle is eerily reminiscent of another fight for human equality: Slavery. In 1854, pro-slavery politician Stephen Douglas’ Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the 1920 Missouri Compromise which ...