As tensions over slavery reached a boiling point, Senator Charles Sumner was brutally caned by Preston Brooks after delivering his speech, The Crime Against Kansas. This event pushed John Brown into ...
But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri. In an era that would come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas," the territory would become a battleground over the slavery question. The reaction ...
By 1875, the members of the Kansas Editors’ and Publishers’ Association had witnessed more history than many people read in ...
Challenges: Franklin Pierce had to deal with the violent consequences—“Bleeding Kansas”—of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which some historians categorize as a low-intensity civil war. Pierce ...
In Topeka, Kansas: Postal carrier Jerry Loney was on his mail route when he came upon a man bleeding profusely. It appeared the man may have intentionally injured himself. “He ran out and yelled ‘Help ...
Kylie Kelce, the wife of former Philadelphia Eagles center, Jason, has revealed who she will be supporting in the Super Bowl.