Many historians now point to that bloody night on Pottawatomie Creek as the first shots of what would become the American ...

Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event that showed how polarized the nation had become over slavery. An event that ...

Fort Scott got its start as a pioneer town. Anchored by the Fort Scott National Historic Site, the city has evolved to ...

When he works to help preserve old and tattered battle flags from the Civil War, Tom Schmidt is doing what a Union soldier, ...