Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. States seem to mark Presidents’ Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents ...

Take a step back in time, unfold that road map and get your kicks on Route 66 as well as exploring the state’s 12 byways this spring and summer.

A controversy in Kansas illustrates the dark history of U.S. Indian boarding schools. Can Indigenous peoples like the Shawnee ...

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ALBANY, Saturday, Feb. 16. The authorized agent of the New-York Kansas Relief Committee, Rev. C.C. HUTCHINSON, put forth the following reply to the dispatch from Leavenworth, published in the New ...

Those visiting the Chief Vann House Historic Site, 82 Highway 225, through the end of April can view our collection of framed ...

with much of the Union support centered in St. Louis and Kansas City, which had larger Black populations than elsewhere in the state. In 1861, Missouri Gov. Claiborne Fox Jackson, who supported ...

Most infamously, President James Buchanan (who was in office from 1857 to 1861) offered government posts to politicians who would support a pro-slavery Kansas state constitution drafted in 1857.