Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LIKE MOST SOLDIERS, I am drawn to the history of the Civil War—not just the outcomes of the key battles but the war’s political ...

Between 1855 and 1859, a guerrilla war broke out in Kansas, ignited by pro-slavery Democrats who sought to make Kansas a slave state. The violence there — which gave the name “Bleeding Kansas” to this ...