Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...

Just off Lawrence Avenue, in an area north of Holcom Sports Complex, one building stands out from the mostly residential ...

He therefore bowed to Southern wishes and proposed a bill for organizing Nebraska-Kansas which stated that the slavery question would be decided by popular sovereignty. He assumed that settlers ...

ST. LOUIS, Tuesday, Feb. 28. The bill abolishing Slavery in Kansas, which was vetoed by Gov. MEDAEY, has been passed over his veto by a vote of 30 to 7. Advertisement ...

In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the United States westward. His justification for expansion seemed to him self-evident, for "What good man would prefer a ...

At the edge of the United States — Kansas wouldn’t become a state until ... “We don’t have a lot of artifacts related to slavery, because people didn’t keep that stuff.

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

The Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old ...