by Missourinet Contributor | May 19, 2006 | News
This week, we’ve looked back at the Border War between Missouri and Kansas. Blood shed from the battlefield has been replaced by more civil forms of competition. The sports rivalry between the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas is one of the...
by Missourinet Contributor | May 17, 2006 | News
When people today look back on the Missouri-Kansas Border War of 150 years ago, they probably think the know where the players on each side stood all Missourians were in favor of maintaining slavery while Free State Kansans wanted to abolish slavery and live equally...
by Missourinet Contributor | May 17, 2006 | News
Many people know about the infamous “Sacking of Lawrence, Kansas” by pro-slavery, Missouri forces on May 21, 1856, but a Kansas history professor says there’s another raid that might be just as important. University of Kansas history professor Rita...
by Missourinet Contributor | May 16, 2006 | News
150 years ago this week, Missourians and Kansans would move beyond the decades of rhetoric over the debate on slavery and move to actual fighting to try to resolve the issue. On May 21, 1856, pro-slavery forces, mostly from Missouri, would hit the Free State...
by Missourinet Contributor | May 15, 2006 | News
mnborder1.mp3 150 years ago this week marks the start of what many experts agree is probably the real start to the U.S. Civil War – the Border War between Missouri and Kansas. Historians trace the roots of the conflict back to the earliest days of the young...
