Tucked inside the Nebraska State Capitol, the Nebraska State Library—founded in 1855—holds a rich history, from its dramatic ...

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 ...