Subject: American Civil War

• Best "Screw You" to the Kansas State Board of Education

  October 19, 2000

• Best Local Filmmaker

  October 7, 2004

• For Civil War re-enactors, the Border War ain’t no football game

  November 27, 2008

• Lincoln: The Constitution & The Civil War

  June 26, 2008

• God's Mosh Pit

  June 8, 2006

• He Lives

  By keeping his 'queer religion' in the closet, John Ashcroft has a resurrection.

  January 11, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of August 17, 2000

  August 17, 2000

• Dixie Belle removes its rebel battle flags

  February 10, 2000

• When the national media was obsessed with Kansas

  ​One of the books on my summer reading list was Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858, by Wichita State University professor Craig Miner. I wanted to study up on area history, and Miner's research was interesting from a journalistic perspective, too.I never knew this, but for a few years in the 1850s, the national media was obsessed with Kansas. "Hundreds of thousands of articles and editorials -- 4,500 in the New York Herald alone -- were published about Bleeding Kansas,"

  September 11, 2009