Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event ...

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 ...

Kansas native Lee Ralph first learned of The ... While we may never know the end of the infamous Bloody Benders, Lee said it’s the mystery that has kept their story alive well over a century ...

Investigators cite a custody battle over Butler’s two children as the motive. The custody dispute had lasted more than five years. Butler’s ex-partner, Wrangler Rickman, who is Adams’ son, had custody ...

Unless you live in the state, you may have forgotten that Missouri remained in the Union during the Civil War. It’s an easy ...

Edward Bridgman was one of the northerners who came to Kansas during the period that became known as "Bleeding Kansas." He grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, and migrated to Kansas in 1856 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Lawrence man was ordered to stand trial Monday after witnesses testified that he beat them bloody with a pistol and fired ...