Users of the travel website TripAdvisor identified the northeast Kansas community of Lawrence as being the most peaceful ...

The Compromise of 1850 brought relative calm to the nation. Though most blacks and abolitionists strongly opposed the Compromise, the majority of Americans embraced it, believing that it offered a ...

They’d lived through a bitter conflict between Jayhawkers and border ruffians, and one between the North and the South. They’d seen the bloody birth of a state — and the breakup and reconstruction of ...

The brawl came after the Lions dropped the game to the Chiefs in Kansas City. After the game concluded, Chiefs quarterback ...

Volunteer Mike Wallen sifts dirt and debris through a dry-screening tripod at the Kansas Historical Society’s archaeological field school, held this year in Lecompton. Just a few stone walls remain of ...

South Carolina Rep. Preston Brooks attacks Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate chambers on May 22, 1856, in this illustration. (U.S. Senate) Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner risked ...