Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, takes its name from noted Worcester industrialist ... The one-building school struggled from the start, with the Civil War making it difficult to gain momentum.

The Kansas Bar Association named former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young as the keynote speaker for this year's conference, which will be hosted in Topeka at Washburn University. "For us, it ...

In efforts to remember and promote Civil War history, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) held their 29th annual encampment at the Museum of the Kansas National Guard.

He said the program explores the history of pre-Civil War Kansas through authors and historians, culminating with a special reenactment program. The programs all begin at 2 p.m. Sundays at ...

Guest Commentary Before Civil War, Kansas town divided parties and even helped elect Abraham Lincoln | Opinion By Jack L. Oglesby II Special to The Kansas City Star October 30, 2023 5:02 AM ...

The Martin Cemetery in Stafford County, Kansas holds the remains of "Exodusters" who migrated to the area in the years after the Civil War ended. Sometimes the little places you pass every day ...

In his insightful book “A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War,” the historian David S. Brown makes a convincing case for the ...

And it defined Kansas like it did no other state, said Deb Goodrich Bissel, a Kansas historian from Topeka. “We became a state at the beginning of the war,” Goodrich Bissel said.

Prior to the 1870s, during Kansas' territorial period, free blacks and fugitive slaves entered the state via the Underground Railroad and hid in stations near Lawrence, Topeka, Oskaloosa, Holton ...