In the opening chapter of Kings and Generals' Civil War series, we explore the deep-rooted causes behind America’s bloodiest ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use ...

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 ...

“Kansas has been invaded ... whose name comes from an 1858 address by William Seward, interprets the Civil War as unavoidable due to the irreconcilable differences of political economy, culture ...

But the 150-year history of state control dates back to the Civil War. Kansas City is the only major city that lacks control over its own police department. The oft-stated rationale for state ...

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 ...

A legislature for the Kansas Territory (many of whose members ... town contributed to Lincoln’s election, the start of the Civil War and the end of slavery in America. This is a story well ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...