They’d lived through a bitter conflict between Jayhawkers and border ruffians, and one between the North and the South. They’d seen the bloody birth of a state — and the breakup and reconstruction of ...

Bell was hired to lead the Kansas Museum of History in June 2022 when she was eight months pregnant with her son, Felix.

Explore Kansas frontier history on this 5-day road trip from Council Grove to Dodge City. Follow the Santa Fe Trail through ...

Long grass bears the weight of snow in this Jan. 8, 2024, photo taken in Emporia. The blizzard of early January closed roads and brought life-threatening cold to the state. (Max McCoy/Kansas Reflector ...

John Brown commemorated with a statue in the Quindaro neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before the ...

Images of some of the 19th Century flags in the Kansas Historical Society's collection that have degraded over time. Tom Schmidt is one of the people spearheading a program that would help raise funds ...

Dimensional Innovations leads immersive redesign of 20,000-square-foot gallery in Topeka, offering bold reimagining of state's history museum Dimensional Innovations (DI), a Kansas City-based ...

The Martin Cemetery in Stafford County, Kansas holds the remains of "Exodusters" who migrated to the area in the years after the Civil War ended. Sometimes the little places you pass every day hold ...

Online Bob Miller keeps the public updated on the Bender property through the Facebook page, Kansas Bloody Benders. He also hosted a presentation last year in Parsons with University of Kansas ...

HISTORY OF HISPANIC SETTLEMENT IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS: Editor's Note: This story is part two of a three-part series exploring environmental injustice in Wyandotte County. In part 1, we wrote about ...