Challenges: Franklin Pierce had to deal with the violent consequences—“Bleeding Kansas”—of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which some historians categorize as a low-intensity civil war. Pierce ...

I’m certainly not an expert in history, especially about New Hampshire. I remember learning long ago in school that Franklin ...

The Missouri Compromise, which restricted the expansion of slavery, was swept aside by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. With a nod to Southern power, the federal government decided to place the ...

As a part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the United States Congress appropriated $5,000 to establish law libraries in both states. In 1855, the Nebraska Territorial Library was founded in Omaha.