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Enslaved people risked everything to escape Missouri for Kansas — even walking across a frozen riverSlavery in Missouri is rarely discussed, but unique geography in its western region helped create a treacherous set of circumstances for the enslaved.
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In a tiny Kansas cabin, perhaps the best-known folk song ever was written nearly 150 years ago.
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The Topeka Capital-Journal recently described the Kansas State Historical Society’s archives as “Kansas’s scrapbook.” In the society’s archive wing you’ll…
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If you want to excavate a shipwreck, you don’t have to buy a submarine and go cruise the Caribbean. You need only travel to certain cornfields in Kansas,…
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The Path to StatehoodKansas became the 34th state on January 29, 1861. The journey to become a state was long and bloody. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854…