Kansas History 1854-1865Drawn from the Sabin collection and other Gale sources, Kansas History: Territorial through Civil War, 1854—1865 provides access to a wide variety of documents: personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, legal treatises and children's books related to Kansas History. Kansas History: Territorial through Civil War, 1854—1865 covers a variety of subjects during a pivotal period in American history, including the Civil War, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Kansas Constitution of 1857, American fiction and antislavery literature, Native Americans in Kansas, John Brown, and more.