A new overlook platform at the Kansas Museum of History gives visitors an up-close view of the 1914 Longren biplane. The three-year renovation of the museum cost $6 million and takes visitors on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An event Saturday will honor the historical significance of the African-Americans known as Exodusters who came in the late 1800s ...

Topeka has been capital of Kansas since it became a state in 1861. But four other cities — Lecompton, Leavenworth, Pawnee and Fairway (site of Shawnee Baptist Mission) — lay claim to having previously ...

Nick Chiles, a prominent Black Topeka newspaper editor in the early 1900s, is buried at Topeka's Mount Auburn Cemetery. So are Negro Leagues baseball player and manager "Topeka Jack" Johnson and ...

The Shawnee County Historical Society on Sunday, Oct. 13, will offer a chance to tour four major buildings/lofts in downtown Topeka. The organization's annual Historic Homes Tour fundraiser that day ...

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 ...

A rededication of Exoduster Boulevard on the Stormont Vail Events Center grounds is among events set to take place Saturday at that location. An event Saturday will honor the historical significance ...