Kansas

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    State or Province
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    John Brown's 1856 daguerreotype image captured in Kansas Personal
    At Atchison, the Kansas Relief Committee reports on its efforts to aid the drought-stricken territory Crime/Disasters
    Charles Robinson elected governor of Kansas in first election held under the Wyandotte Constitution Campaigns/Elections
    Elias Disney born in Ontario, Canada Cultural
    First railroad track ever laid in Kansas put down Battles/Soldiers
    George Armstrong Custer has his first encounter with Plains Indians in eastern Nebraska. Battles/Soldiers
    Horace Greeley arrives in Kansas on his tour of the West Cultural
    Horace Greeley sets off from New York on his tour of the West Cultural
    House of Representatives passes the Kansas Statehood Bill and sends it to the Senate Lawmaking/Litigating
    In Kansas, a severe drought that will become the "Great Drought of 1860" starts to set in Crime/Disasters
    In Kansas, tornadoes destroy homes and buildings Crime/Disasters
    Kansas Democrats choose Stephen Douglas as their candidate for President Campaigns/Elections
    Kansas Republicans win crushing victories in the state and federal elections. Campaigns/Elections
    Kansas voters reject the Lecompton Constitution Campaigns/Elections
    On campaign in western Kansas, Custer's Seventh Cavalry suffers a rash of desertions. Battles/Soldiers
    On campaign in western Kansas, the Seventh Cavalry's second in command commits suicide. Battles/Soldiers
    President Buchanan signs the bill to admit free Kansas as the 34th state of the Union Lawmaking/Litigating
    The Wyandotte Constitution is put to a popular vote in Kansas Campaigns/Elections
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    Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854
    David Davis to Julius Rockwell, March 4, 1855
    New York Herald, “The Kansas Question and the Anti-Slavery Disorganizers,” May 15, 1855
    Abraham Lincoln to Joshua Fry Speed, August 24, 1855
    Louisville (KY) Journal, "Exciting News from Kansas," December 3, 1855
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Affairs in Kansas," December 15, 1855
    Washington (DC) National Era, "The Future Judged by the Past," January 1, 1857
    New York Times, "Kansas Affairs," January 3, 1857
    New York Times, “Message of Gov. Hamlin, of Maine,” January 9, 1857
    New York Times, "Views of Senator Cameron on Public Affairs," January 22, 1857
    New York Times, "Kansas Affairs," January 27, 1857
    New York Times, “Affairs in Kansas,” February 9, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Affairs in Kansas,” February 12, 1857
    New York Times, “The Question of Emancipation in Missouri,” February 14, 1857
    New York Times, "The Joint Committee to Notify the President and Vice-President Elect," February 14, 1857
    New York Times, “Kansas and the South,” February 25, 1857
    New York Times, “Important from Kansas,” February 27, 1857
    New York Times, “News from Kansas,” March 2, 1857
    New York Times, "The American Party," March 3, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Affairs in Kansas,” March 5, 1857
    New York Herald, “Practical Effect of the Dred Scott Judgment,” March 11, 1857
    New York Times, “Massachusetts Legislature,” March 16, 1857
    New York Times, “Corruption in Congress,” March 17, 1857
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The Agitation of the Slavery Question," March 17, 1857
    Carlisle (PA) American Democrat, "Resignation of Gov. Geary," March 19, 1857
    New York Times, “A Few Words About Kansas,” March 20, 1857
    New York Times, “Farewell Address of Governor Geary,” March 21, 1857
    New York Times, “News from Kansas,” March 24, 1857
    New York Times, “Governor Geary’s Last Interview with Mr. Buchanan,” March 28, 1857
    New York Times, “Robert J. Walker’s Acceptance of the Governship of Kansas,” April 1, 1857
    New York Times, “Mr. Walker’s Views in Regard to Slavery in Kansas,” April 1, 1857
    New York Times, “Slavery in Missouri,” April 9, 1857
    New York Times, “Dissatisfaction at Walker’s Appointment,” April 15, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “A Fire-Eater’s Meditation on the St. Louis Emancipation Victory,” April 23, 1857
    New York Times, “Kansas Politics,” May 4, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Kansas Given Over By The South,” May 14, 1857
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Southern Rights," May 27, 1857
    New York Times, “From Kansas,” June 2, 1857
    New York Times, “Affairs in Kansas,” June 12, 1857
    New York Times, “The ‘Governors’ of Kansas,” June 22, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, "The Administration," June 25, 1857
    New York Times, “Kansas,” June 30, 1857
    New York Times, “Where is the South?,” July 11, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Kansas News,” July 30, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “A Mistake,” August 13, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Slavery in Oregon,” August 13, 1857
    New York Times, “Slavery in Kansas,” June 22, 1857
    New York Times, “Mr. Marcy on the Sumner Assault,” September 2, 1857
    New York Times, “News From Kansas,” September 24, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Inconsistency,” October 1, 1857
    New York Times, “South Carolina Senator,” October 12, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Evils of Organism,” October 15, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, "The Union," October 15, 1857
    New York Times, “The Fall Elections,” October 17, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Collapse of Abolitionists,” October 22, 1857
    New York Times, “Virginia Politics,” October 26, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Reports of the Kansas Press,” October 29, 1857
    The Election—How Mr. Parrott, the Free State candidate was Chosen to Congress—He Receives his Certificate from Governor Walker
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Douglas’s Organ on Kansas,” October 29, 1857
    Boston (MA) Liberator, "Buchanan Democracy," October 30, 1857
    New York Times, “Important Rumor,” October 31, 1857
    New York Times, “News from Kansas,” November 13, 1857
    New York Times, “The Republicans and Gov. Walker,” November 18, 1857
    Stephen A. Douglas to John A. McClernand, November 23, 1857
    New York Times, “The Kansas Constitution,” December 8, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Independence of Voting,” December 10, 1857
    New York Times, "The Missing Walker," December 14, 1857
    New York Times, “Governor Walker in Washington,” December 15, 1857
    New York Times, “Secretary Stanton’s Call for an Extra Session of the Kansas Legislature,” December 17, 1857
    New York Times, “The Fight in Congress,” December 18, 1857
    New York Times, “The Republicans and Gov. Walker,” December 19, 1857
    New York Times, “Governor Walker and General Cass,” December 24, 1857
    Abraham Lincoln, Fragment of a Speech, circa December 28, 1857
    New York Herald, “News from Kansas,” December 30, 1857
    New York Times, “Southern Democratic Sentiment Concerning Northern Democrats,” December 30, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Presidential Intervention Against Slavery,” December 31, 1857
    New York Herald, "The Kansas Trouble in Congress," January 3, 1858
    New York Herald, "Kansas," January 4, 1858
    New York Herald, "The Slavery Question in Congress," January 5, 1858
    New York Herald, "Kansas as a Slave State," January 7, 1858
    John Murray Forbes to N. M. Beckwith, January 17, 1858
    New York Herald, "The Approaching Conclusion of the Kansas Comedy," January 27, 1858
    New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "Admission of Kansas," February 10, 1858
    New York Herald, “The United States Senators From Kansas,” February 20, 1858
    New York Herald, "Political Agitation in this Metropolis," Febraury 26, 1858
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "A Noble Confession," February 27, 1858
    (Concord) New Hampshire Statesman, “Douglas in the Senate,” March 6, 1858
    New York Times, “Douglas’ Kansas Speech,” March 24, 1858
    Boston (MA) Herald, “Kansas as it Passed the Senate,” March 26, 1858
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The Result in the House," April 7, 1858
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The Rejection of Kansas," April 26, 1858
    Salmon Portland Chase to James Shepard Pike, May 12, 1858
    New York Times, "Kansas Affairs," June 3, 1858
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Voice of Kansas,” June 19, 1858
    New York Herald, “The Hon. Joshua R. Giddings vs. the Administration and the Slave Power,” June 27, 1858
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "The Passage at Arms between Lincoln and Douglas in 1854," July 1, 1858
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “New Orleans Delta on the Illinois Republican Convention,” July 5, 1858
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Douglas Coming Home," July 7, 1858
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Senator Crittenden,” July 8, 1858
    New York Herald, “Senator Douglas at Chicago,” July 12, 1858
    Lawrence (KS) Herald of Freedom, "Prepare for the Fight," July 17, 1858
    (St. Louis) Missouri Republican, "The Progress of Judge Douglas Through Illinois," July 19, 1858
    New York Herald, "Lecompton to be Rejected," July 26, 1858
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Douglas Tottering!," July 29, 1858
    John Jordan Crittenden to Abraham Lincoln, July 29, 1858
    New York Times, “The Kansas Election,” August 2, 1858
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The Lecompton Constitution Rejected," August 9, 1858
    New York Times, “Death of Lecompton," August 11, 1858
    New York Herald, “The Illinois Campaign,” August 13, 1858
    New York Herald, “Political Joking," August 15, 1858
    New York Herald, “The Illinois Campaign,” August 22, 1858
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Faithful Witness,” August 27, 1858
    Joseph Medill to Abraham Lincoln, August 27, 1858
    New York Times, “What will Kansas do Next?,” August 31, 1858
    (St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “Kansas Affairs,” September 5, 1858
    New York Times, “Opposition Ratification Meeting in Philadelphia,” September 16, 1858
    New York Herald, “Mr. English on the English Bill,” September 19, 1858
    Newark (OH) Advocate, “The English Bill in Kansas,” September 29, 1858
    New York Herald, “Treachery in Tammany,” October 9, 1858
    Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “A Great Ado about Nothing,” October 19, 1858
    Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, "Divided We Fall," October 25, 1858
    New York Times, "The Illinois Election," November 5, 1858
    Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, "A House Divided, &c.," November 17, 1858
    (St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “What the English Bill has Done for Kansas,” November 27, 1858
    New York Herald, “The Struggle Among the Virginia Democracy,” December 5, 1858
    Boston (MA) Flag of Our Union, “Uncle Sam’s Farm,” December 11, 1858
    New York Times, “From Kansas and Pikes Peak,” December 15, 1858
    New York Times, “Further Outrages in Kansas,” December 28, 1858
    New York Times, “The Kansas Troubles,” January 8, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “For the Lambs of the Flock,” January 12, 1859
    New York Times, “News from Kansas and Utah,” January 15, 1859
    New York Herald, “The Presidential Question,” January 29, 1859
    Lawrence (KS) Herald of Freedom, “Crime is Crime,” February 5, 1859
    Samuel Gridley Howe to John Murray Forbes, February 5, 1859
    Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Marshall’s Posse,” February 12, 1859
    New York Times, “Admission of Oregon,” February 14, 1859
    Boston (MA) Liberator, "Letters from Friends of the Cause," February 18, 1859
    New York Times, “Boundaries of Oregon,” February 21, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Gold Regions of the West,” February 24, 1859
    New York Times, “The Political Future,” February 26, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Congress,” February 28, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Slave Stealing in Missouri," March 8, 1859
    Memphis (TN) Appeal, “Kansas Constitutional Convention,” March 13, 1859
    New York Times, “Dr. Doy of Kansas,” March 18, 1859
    Ripley (OH) Bee, “Untitled,” March 19, 1859
    Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Untitled,” March 22, 1859
    Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Free vs. Slave,” March 26, 1859
    (Omaha) Nebraskian, “Ossowatamie [Osawatomie] Brown,” April 2, 1859
    New York Herald, “The Late Scattering Elections,” April 6, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Douglas Organ on Slavery Extension,” April 14, 1859
    New York Herald, “The Pike’s Peak Delusion,” May 29, 1859
    Memphis (TN) Appeal, “Land Speculations at the West,” June 5, 1859
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Kansas Gold Mines,” June 11, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Virginia Will Lead,” June 22, 1859
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Caught,” June 27, 1859
    Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, July 28, 1859
    New York Times, “The Slavery Question,” July 29, 1859
    Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Rights of Women in Kansas,” August 4, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune,“Constitution of Kansas,” August 12, 1859
    Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Beloit, Wisconsin, October 1, 1859
    Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, “Negro Insurrection!," October 20, 1859
    Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Old John Brown,” October 22, 1859
    New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "The Harper's Ferry Outbreak," October 22, 1859
    Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "Northern Impertinences with Regard to the Late Affair at Harpers Ferry," October 24, 1859
    New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "The Harper's Ferry Affair," October 25, 1859
    Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “The Madness of Brown,” October 25, 1859
    Lydia Maria Child to John Brown, October 26, 1859
    Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Sketch of Captain John Brown," October 27, 1859
    Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Governor Wise on the Harper's Ferry Insurrection," October 27, 1859
    Baltimore (MD) Sun, "More Harper's Ferry Disclosures," October 28, 1859
    Lawrence (KS) Herald of Freedom, “Old John Brown,” October 29, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "A Game that Will Not Win," October 31, 1859
    Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Black Republican Ingratitude," November 3, 1859
    New York Times, "The Brown Invasion Transplanted From Kansas," November 5, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Democratic Party and Old Brown,” November 8, 1859
    John Thomas Lewis Preston to Margaret Junkin Preston, December 2, 1859
    New York Herald, "The Slavery Agitation," December 10, 1859
    William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, December 12, 1859
    Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Admission of Kansas,” December 17, 1859
    Washington (DC) National Era, "Prohibition of Slavery in Nebraska," January 19, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Harper’s Ferry Inquisition,” February 15, 1860
    Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “The Senate’s Inquisition,” February 24, 1860
    New York Herald, “The Senate and Messrs Hyatt and Howe,” February 25, 1860
    Charleston (SC) Courier, “John Brown’s Private Secretary,” March 8, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Worse than the Wilmot Proviso,” March 12, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Admission of Kansas,” April 13, 1860
    New York Times, “A Bomb-Shell for Charleston,” April 19, 1860
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Mr. Buchanan’s Letter,” April 20, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Douglas Nomination,” April 21, 1860
    Boston (MA) Liberator, “The Late Homicide in Kansas,” May 4, 1860
    (Omaha) Nebraskian, “Monument to John Brown,” May 5, 1860
    Ripley (OH) Bee, “The Admission of Kansas,” May 10, 1860
    Newark (OH) Advocate, “How Mr. Buchanan’s Patronage Is Dispensed in Ohio,” May 11, 1860
    (Jackson) Mississippian, “Kansas in the Senate,” May 23, 1860
    Atchison (KS) Freedom's Champion, “Kansas and Cuba,” June 2, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Sumner’s Speech,” June 8, 1860
    New York Times, "Gov. Seward and John Brown," August 18, 1860
    (Jackson) Mississippian, "Facts for the People," August 28, 1860
    Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Distress in Kansas,” September 4, 1860
    Ripley (OH) Bee, "Drouth in Kansas," October 18, 1860
    (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot, “Don't Care,” November 3, 1860
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Kansas News,” November 23, 1860
    John Sherman to William Tecumseh Sherman, November 26, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Tribune, "Montgomery," December 1, 1860
    (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot, “Vermont Personal Liberty Law,” February 9, 1861
    Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “News from the ‘All Hazard’ Boys,” June 1, 1861
    Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Kansas and the War,” August 3, 1861
    Willard P. Hall to Abraham Lincoln, May 12, 1864
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