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 ...

Give some credit to Sam Brownback, the far-right Republican governor of Kansas: He’s got tenacity. Confronted by an unbroken string of reports that his fiscal policies are leading his state to e ...

An event that pushed John Brown over the edge. Old Brown was coming, with his militia leading to 56 political killings called Bleeding Kansas. Trump says he doesn't want Apple building products in ...

John Brown commemorated with a statue in the Quindaro neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before ...

Constitution Hall State Historic Site in Lecompton is ready to launch its next Bleeding Kansas program series. Site administrator Tim Rues visited Eye on NE Kansas to share details of the schedule.

In more than 20 years of research, he amassed revealing documentation on the colony and its key role in what is called Bleeding Kansas, the often-violent clash over the future of the Kansas ...

Fatal violence broke out between the two factions. “Bleeding Kansas” proved a precursor to the Civil War. In 2022, Kansas might again be a precursor, but a precursor to the new United States ...

See the battlefield that kicked off “Bleeding Kansas” the precursor to the American Civil War. The Black Jack battlefield site is located just off Highway 56 on E 200 Road, east of Baldwin City.