The Kansas Territory stretched all the way west to the Continental Divide in Colorado's Rocky Mountains when federal lawmakers created it in 1854. But Kansas gave up roughly half of that land when it ...
It began as a tug-of-war between cultures and empires. Spain wanted us. France did, too. Neither empire considered the native tribes already on the soil. In 1541, the year that Francisco Vasquez de ...
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It was no secret Sen. Stephen A. Douglas wanted to be president. The short but dominant Democrat from Illinois, nicknamed “Little Giant,” lost his first bid for the presidency in 1852, when he failed ...
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