The remarkable story of one of the early women movement's most effective leaders, a newspaper publisher who took the campaign for suffrage to Bleeding Kansas. In the mid-1800s brave women began breaking the taboo of remaining silent at public gatherings. They began signing their names to petitions and flexing political muscle long before they had the vote. No one represented this early struggle...
The author's meticulous quest to collect her subject's scattered writings has yielded a biographical triumph with striking parallels to today's #MeToo movement. In 1998, author Diane Eickhoff stumbled upon a handmade historical exhibit in a small Kansas museum and was introduced to one of the most remarkable women in feminist history. Clarina Nichols (1810-1885) was a newspaper publisher and...
Fuel up the car and get ready to rethink everything you knew about the Civil War. Did you know it was on the prairies of Kansas where the first shots in America's bloodiest conflict were fired? That it was Missouri where the first African-American soldiers were sent into battle? That a fight broke out on the floor of the U.S. Congress over the fate of tiny Lecompton, Kansas? These are among the...