Discover the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Learn how 'popular sovereignty' sparked Bleeding Kansas and accelerated the American Civil War in this article.

Early Kansas history was rich and often tumultuous, with Native American cultures, the Louisiana Purchase and westward ...

This Day in History - January 4: committee reports to the U.S. Senate a bill creating the Kansas-Nebraska Act January 4, 1854 - A bill introduced by Sen. Stephen Douglas in January, 1854, divided the ...

(“The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854,” John R. Wunder and Joann M. Ross, editors, University of Nebraska Press, 220 pages, $30 paperback.) One of the most important events to affect Nebraska came before ...