Topics in Kansas History: War

"Bleeding Kansas"

Find resources on "Bleeding Kansas."

• Territorial Kansas Online
• Willing to Die for Freedom online exhibit

• "'Advocate the Freedom of White Men, As Well As That of the Negroes': The Kansas Free State and Antislavery Westerns in Territorial Kansas." Kansas History, Summer 1997
• "Bleeding Kansas: A Review Essay," Kansas History, Winter 2001
• "How Bloody was Bleeding Kansas? Political Killings in Kansas Territory, 1854- 1861," Kansas History, Summer 1995
• Kansas Territorial Sesquicentennial Commission
• "'Labouring for the Freedom of This Territory': Free-State Kansas Women in the 1850s." Kansas History, Summer 1998

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Territorial Kansas Online
• Desk from Quindaro
• Howitzer from Lawrence
• Melodeon associated with John Brown
• Pro-slavery leader's desk
• Slave shackle
• Warletters, "Bleeding Kansas"
• Willing to Die for Freedom online exhibit

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

Museum Store

• Bleeding Kansas books
• Kansas Territorial 150th gifts

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "Bleeding Kansas: A Review Essay," Winter 2001
• "'The free sons of the North' vs. 'The myridons of Border-Ruffianism': What Makes a Man in Bleeding Kansas?", Autumn 2002
• "From Border War to Civil War: More Letters From Edward and Sarah Fitch, 1855-1863. Part I,", Spring 1997
• "Lane & Lincoln: A Mysterious Connection." Autumn 2001
• "Plows and Bibles, Rifles and Revolvers: Guns in Kansas Territory," Spring 1998

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "Bleeding Kansas & the Civil War," February 1998
• "The Making of Kansas: Territorial Days 1854-1861," December 2000/January 2001

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