Bell was hired to lead the Kansas Museum of History in June 2022 when she was eight months pregnant with her son, Felix.

They’d lived through a bitter conflict between Jayhawkers and border ruffians, and one between the North and the South. They’d seen the bloody birth of a state — and the breakup and reconstruction of ...

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 ...

Explore Kansas frontier history on this 5-day road trip from Council Grove to Dodge City. Follow the Santa Fe Trail through ...

Though the onset of cold weather has put a chill on many things Kansans like to do, here are five great stops for Kansas ...

Dimensional Innovations leads immersive redesign of 20,000-square-foot gallery in Topeka, offering bold reimagining of state's history museum Dimensional Innovations (DI), a Kansas City-based ...

Long grass bears the weight of snow in this Jan. 8, 2024, photo taken in Emporia. The blizzard of early January closed roads and brought life-threatening cold to the state. (Max McCoy/Kansas Reflector ...

The Martin Cemetery in Stafford County, Kansas holds the remains of "Exodusters" who migrated to the area in the years after the Civil War ended. Sometimes the little places you pass every day hold ...

A year-end reflection on women whose activism from abolitionism to home schooling made a lasting impact, locally and on a national level.

Online Bob Miller keeps the public updated on the Bender property through the Facebook page, Kansas Bloody Benders. He also hosted a presentation last year in Parsons with University of Kansas ...