TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Statewide Juneteenth Block Party started in earnest on the Kansas Statehouse grounds at 1:00 pm. The event had bounce houses, games, food trucks, and more.

A downtown Topeka hotel is ranked in the top three ... from out of Chicago that was able to connect to that kind of Civil War, old Kansas feel that we wanted." The Cyrus Hotel combines modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...