Our Kansas Stories - Abraham Lincoln
Our Kansas Stories
"Abraham Lincoln, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the National Debate Over Slavery"
Kansas played a primary role in the fight over slavery. With the creation of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its explosive idea of popular sovereignty Kansas Territory became a spark that helped ignite the nation in civil war. But first it caught the attention of Abraham Lincoln and helped propel him into the U.S. presidency.
This publication is sent to members on a quarterly basis. It will provide some essential storylines and highlight key collections to be included in new exhibits at the Kansas Museum of History.
Read this issue:
"Abraham Lincoln, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the National Debate Over Slavery" | PDF
Member newsletter insert | PDF
Map of locations referenced in this issue | PDF
Explore resources related to this issue in Kansas Memory:
- Admit Me Free flag
- Harriet Beecher Stowe letter
- Stephen A. Douglas
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Nebraska and Kansas Map
- Abraham Lincoln
- Wooden cane
- Abraham Lincoln
- Stephen Douglas
- Lombard banner
- Abraham Lincoln to Mark W. Delahay letter
- Members of Wyandotte Constitutional Convention
- Jillson Hotel
- Mark W. Delahay to Abraham Lincoln
- Elwood map
- Daniel Mulford Valentine's diary
- Troy town share
- Troy plat map
- Charles Smith chair
- Anti-Slavery Mass Meeting poster
- John Brown
- Methodist Church, Atchison
- Massasoit House, Atchison
- Atchison
- First house in Leavenworth
- Leavenworth lithograph
- Planters Hotel, Leavenworth
- Mark Delahay to Mr Dear Sir
- Mark W. Delahay certificate of appointment with Lincoln's signature
- Wyandotte Constitution that becomes Kansas Constitution
- Abraham Lincoln raising the 34-star Flag
- God Save Kansas banner
- Kansas territorial seal
- Map of Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado
- Kansas banner
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