Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Bleeding Kansas" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Beecher’s Bibles, Border Ruffians, Eli Thayer, Free Settlers, Free State Legislature, John Brown, John Geary, Kansas, Lawrence, Nebraska, Senator Douglas, Sheriff Jones, territory.
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"Nebraska Bill"
Portage Sentinel (Ravenna, OH), February 22, 1854, Page 2, Image 2, col. 4.
"What Is to Be Done?"
Anti-Slavery Bugle (New-Lisbon, OH), June 3, 1854, Page 2, Image 2, col. 1-4.
"The Kansas Emigration Society of Massachussets"
The Perrysburg Journal (Perrysburg, OH), June 17, 1854, Page 115, Image 3, col. 1.
"To the Pro-Slavery or Southern Rights Party"
Squatter Sovereign (Atchison, Kan. Terr.), March 6, 1855, Page 2, Image 2, col. 1.
"A Brutal Murder in Kansas"
Raftsman's Journal (Clearfield, PA), February 13, 1856, Page 3, Image 3, col. 4.
"What the Border Press Say"
The Kansas Herald of Freedom (Wakarusa, Kan. Terr.), May 3, 1856, Page 1, Image 1, col. 5.
"How Kansas Stories Are Manufactured"
Weekly Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN), May 22, 1856, Page 1, Image 1, col. 6.
"Another Account of Mr. Sumner's Castigation--His Provocation"
The Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA), May 26, 1856, Page 1, Image 1, col. 2.
"Destruction of Lawrence"
Meigs County Telegraph (Pomeroy, OH), June 3, 1856, Page 1, Image 1, col. 5.
"A Sumner and Kansas Sermon"
Lewisburg Chronicle (Lewisburg, PA), June 6, 1856, Page 1, Image 1, col. 3.
"The Sack of Lawrence"
Indiana American (Brookville, IN), June 13, 1856, Page 1, Image 1, col. 4.
"A Reign of Terror in Kansas"
Western Reserve Chronicle (Warren, OH), June 18, 1856, Page 1, Image 1, col. 7.
"Triumph of the Right"
The Kansas Herald of Freedom (Wakarusa, Kan. Terr.), December 27, 1856, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"An Outrage"
The Kansas Herald of Freedom (Wakarusa, Kan. Terr.), January 2, 1858, Page 2, Image 2, col. 3.
"Kansas"
Semi-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, NC), August 13, 1859, Page 3, Image 3, col. 3.
"More Border Ruffian Usurpation"
The Kansas Herald of Freedom (Wakarusa, Kan. Terr.), August 20, 1859, Page 2, Image 2, col. 1.

Bleeding Kansas: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America