A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

Sen. Robert Johnson was once one of Arkansas’s most powerful politicians. In a time when the nation was pulling itself apart, Johnson became one of those men pulling hardest of ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

In his May 21 letter (“Reparations? Let the Democratic National Committee pony up!”), writer Norman Schell makes the mistake ...

Surveyors gathered south of Rulo for a work day to preserve the area around the 600-pound Cast Iron Monument, placed in light of the Kansas-Nebraska Act ... surveyor. In 1854, Captain Thomas ...

Fast-forward to the beginning of the 1850s, and slavery had been extinguished ... the Compromise of 1850, and the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and how each shifted the parameters of the debate ...

Most squatters entered Nebraska after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, Shires said. “Brownville was at the forefront of preemption because a local government land office was set ...

Ironically, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by Congress 150 years ... of the new Republican Party, created in 1854 to oppose the spread of slavery. In October, accepting the inevitability of ...

When the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was passed, it allowed the people in those territories to decide for themselves whether they wanted to be free or slave states. This might sound fair ...

The May 30, 1854, act organizing Nebraska and Kansas repealed a clause in the 1820 Missouri Compromise that “forever prohibited” slavery in new territories created from the Louisiana Purchase.

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act would allow the citizens of those western territories to decide through popular vote whether they wanted to become a free state or a slave state. The New England ...

- One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, the nation was on the eve of the Civil War and transfixed by the bloody fighting in Kansas over whether the territory would enter Slave or free? Kansas looks back ...