In 1861, Missouri Gov. Claiborne Fox Jackson, who supported the Confederacy, persuaded the Legislature to pass a law giving ...

Bader-King is the executive director of the Wornall/Majors House Museums, a three-person nonprofit that manages the two Civil ...

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

After early success as a stagecoach shop, Olathe is now classic suburbia dotted with shopping plazas and well-kept parks.

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

The Confederacy had been victorious at Fort Sumter in April and now the next battle - at Bull Run was taking place. The men, women and children who made up the wealthy elite of Washington came out in ...

Weakening the professional civil service could turn back the clock to an era when government was rife with corruption.

The present is not a favorable time for collecting debts in Kansas; but it is to be hoped ... must be commenced prior to Aug. 1, 1861, otherwise the right of action becomes debarred by statute ...