The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 led to a violent conflict known as Bleeding Kansas over whether the territory would be a free or slave state. The state has a complicated past that includes both ...

The land that is now Kansas was acquired by the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Before European settlement, the area was home to numerous Native American tribes for thousands of years. The 1854 ...

Kansas has benefited African Americans by giving them a place to flee from the South, outlawing the Ku Klux Klan and helping end school segregation.

The museum in Topeka reopens on Nov. 22 with free admission, special guests and activities. It will ask visitors to focus on a singular question: What is Kansas? TOPEKA — When Sarah Bell became the ...