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Although started as a school to assimilate American Indians into white culture, Haskell Indian Nations University transformed into an institution that celebrates indigenous cultures.
When settlers arrived to the Kansas Territory, they brought with them plants that soon began to populate the sparse area.
The first free state newspaper in the Kansas Territory promoted the free state cause to its readers, mostly in New England, to recruit them to the territory, ultimately increasing tension among free state and proslavery supporters before the Civil War.
A woman ahead of her times, Emily Taylor gave the women of KU a sense of confidence and a drive to challenge stereotypes during a time when women were treated as inferior to men.
Drag Strip Road, now Wakarusa Drive, ran along a drag strip built in the late 1950s by a high school club hoping to use it as a training track.
The City of Lawrence and the University of Kansas are forever entwined because of the way the City and its early residents came together and created a state university in this town.
Power from the Kaw River and budding manufacturing companies in early Lawrence made a big impact on its economy.
The history of this nearby lake is unique and preserved because of newspapers created by a civilian corps of Black workers.
Discover some of the big events in Lawrence’s history that made the news in the last decade.
In his inaugural address in 1864, Mayor R. W. Luddington called for a new cemetery to serve as a site with “sepulchral fitness for sacred reminiscences where departed friends could be remembered.”