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Bleeding Kansas: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Bleeding Kansas. Aug 07, 2026
Add new Web site: Legends of America - Bleeding Kansas and the Missouri Border War. May 08, 2026
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Bleeding Kansas: Dress Rehearsal for the American Civil War. Dec 26, 2025
Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - Bleeding Kansas. Jun 02, 2025
Add new Web site: Essential Civil War Curriculum - Bleeding Kansas. Mar 01, 2025
Add new Web site: Wichita State University - Bleeding Kansas. Jan 02, 2025
Add new Web site: LSU Scholarly Repository - Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border. Oct 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Civil War on the Western Border - The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865 - Bleeding Kansas: From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to Harpers Ferry. Jul 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Digital History - "Bleeding Kansas" and "Bleeding Sumner". Jun 06, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Bleeding Kansas. Feb 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Bleeding Kansas: The Civil War Before the War. Dec 05, 2023
Add new Web site: American History Central - Bleeding Kansas. Oct 27, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - 1855 - Bleeding Kansas. Sep 15, 2023
Add new Web site: New-York Historical Society - Women & the American Story - Bleeding Kansas. Jul 21, 2023
Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas. Apr 18, 2023
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Was 'Bleeding Kansas' Really That Violent? Apr 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Civil War on the Western Border - Bleeding Kansas: From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to Harpers Ferry. Feb 01, 2023
Add new Web site: Kansapedia - Bleeding Kansas. Dec 09, 2022
Add new Web site: Academia - An Episode of the Bleeding Kansas Era: Archaeological Investigations of the Black Jack Battlefield and Ivan Boyd Prairie, Douglas County, Kansas Prepared for The Black Jack Battlefield Trust. Sep 28, 2022
Article revised and expanded. May 14, 2020
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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