Discover everything about Kansas, the Sunflower State, including its history as a battleground during the Civil War, its ...

The historical society is also planning an event, the 1st Annual Behind the Walls, a car show, which will take place inside the walls of the Kansas State Penitentiary on Sept. 28, 2024, from 10 a ...

The Kansas Historical Society’s archaeological field school this year gave volunteers a chance to dig into the state's territorial history at the site of an 1850s-era mansion near Lecompton. Just a ...

A copy of a photo of the gallows at the historic, Kansas State Penitentiary, also called the Lansing Correctional Facility, which closed in 2020.

For its 150th anniversary, the Kansas Historical Society looks back at how it has told the state’s stories Other News. Jan 25, 2025 - 7:24pm ...

Katrina Ringler, who is the deputy officer at the Kansas State Historic Preservation Office, said the original version of the historic tax credit bill was passed in 2001. Slowly over time, Kansas ...

KCMO was incorporated in 1853, even before Kansas became a state, in 1861. In October 1872 small towns around present-day KCK joined up to form Kansas City, Kansas.