Kansas

Approved on May 30, 1854, the Kansas Nebraska Act established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed settlers to decide on the legality of slavery through “popular sovereignty.” This repealed the Missouri Compromise and increased sectional tensions by opening northern lands to potential…

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> An artist recalls his Midwestern home town and the poet who made it famous</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> IT WAS LIKE THIS FOR OUR GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The first settlers marked the borders of their lives with simple fences that grew ever more elaborate over the centuries</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Within the city’s best-known landmarks and down its least-visited lanes stand surprisingly vivid mementos of our own national history</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">It began with a few people trying to get hamburgers from grill to customer quicker and cheaper. Now. it’s changed the way Americans live. And ,whether you like it or hate it, once you get on the road, you’ll eat it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Dan Patch never lost a race. But that’s not how he made his owner a multi-millionaire. America’s best-loved horse was also perhaps the most shrewdly marketed animal of all time.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A small but dependable pleasure of travel is encountering such blazons of civic pride as “Welcome to the City of Cheese, Chairs, Children, and Churches!”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">They were the first black men to fight in the Civil War. They were the first to serve alongside whites. And they were the first to die.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It was meant to be an outpost for years, but the frontier sped past it in months.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Drawn to the story of the fearsome Confederate raider by a modern act of violence, the author finds a strange epic in the rebel’s restless remains.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A life-long fascination with the stories of a famous pioneering family finally drove the writer to South Dakota in hopes of better understanding the prairie life that Laura Ingalls Wilder lived there and later gave to the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Tempers flare and violence reigns in the pre–Civil War battleground of Kansas.</span></p>