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 ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - 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 ...

Some of the activities will take place at cemeteries across northeast Kansas. • The Historic Topeka Cemetery ... Ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Civil War section; a dedication of a headstone ...

Freedom's Frontier, a coalition of more than 200 historically significant sites on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri border, ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 ... and the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and how each shifted the parameters of the debate, but Merry ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP ... The intense reverence many Americans feel for Old Glory arose from the Civil War, when the need to keep the banner aloft in battle led the Union army to treat the deadly ...

The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing ...