Kansas applied for admittance to the Union. However, the proslavery forces in the Senate strongly opposed its free state status, and stalled its admission. Only in 1861, after the Confederate ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Tuesday, May 28, 1861. The borders of Kansas and Missouri furnish a field for observation most interesting to any one familiar with the history of the famoSs struggle through ...

LAWRENCE, Sunday, May 26, 1861. During the past week our State Convention ... and if the politicians of Kansas had been left alone to fix the programme, he would doubtless have been successful.

In the 19th century, police in St. Louis and Kansas City were placed under state control as a power move by Democrats to ...

In the United States, Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honouring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades ...

Women could vote in school elections in 1861 and in city elections in 1887, and the nation's first woman mayor, Susanna M. Salter, was elected in Argonia, Kansas, that year. Voters amended the ...