Kansas State Historical Society - Territorial Kansas Reader

Territorial Kansas Reader #17503

Like the American Civil War for the larger field of our nation’s history, the history of Kansas’ territorial era, better known as Bleeding Kansas, has been of great interest to students of Kansas history since the beginning. Participants published the first histories of these tumultuous times before anything had been settled on the ground. They continued to come at an ever-accelerating rate during the late-19th century, and throughout 20th scholars contributed numerous books and articles to the discussion, so that the literature in this field of study is vast.

The Territorial Kansas Reader, edited by Virgil W. Dean, director for publications at the Kansas State Historical Society, pulls together 22 of the most important essays and edited documents on the history of the era. Included are articles first published in a special, sesquicentennial issue of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains (Spring/Summer 2004) by younger scholars such as Nicole Etcheson, whose highly regarded book Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2004, and “classics” by the likes of historians James C. Malin and Paul Wallace Gates. A speech by John Brown and the Kansas correspondence of a settler from South Carolina are among the edited primary sources found in this useful volume.

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