The film discusses the historical context leading to the American Civil War, focusing on the sectional tensions between free ...

The crowd listened intently as Steve Cottrell, a Carthage resident and Civil War researcher and writer, told the story of the detachment of 40 members of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry ...

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 ...

U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents.

Franklin Pierce was the lackluster choice of the Democratic Party in 1852, nominated after 48 ballots. In a campaign devoid of issues—for example, both parties endorsed the Compromise of 1850—Pierce ...