250 Years · 50 States · One Historic Milestone
Through the mid-1850s, pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers flooded into Kansas and fough...
Read more →The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 organized the Kansas and Nebraska territories while allowi...
Read more →Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29, 1861, just weeks before the start...
Read more →On August 21, 1863, Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill led a raid on Lawrence,...
Read more →Following the Civil War, Kansas became the northern terminus of major cattle drives from T...
Read more →Kansas emerged as the wheat capital of the United States during the latter nineteenth cent...
Read more →Kansas was among the states hardest hit by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when years of droug...
Read more →The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education originated from a ca...
Read more →Wichita became one of the most important centers of aircraft manufacturing in the United S...
Read more →Today, Kansas remains a global leader in aircraft manufacturing and a powerhouse in Americ...
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