Power. Every creature in the world wants it. Nothing likes to be picked on. Everything from plankton to humans wants power over its rivals in life. There is a saying that too much of a good thing can sometime be a bad thing. Too much power can sometimes be appalling. Another example is water, it is ...

No state's creation was more dramatic, more at the center of national attention, more involved in fundamental moral conflict, than that of Kansas. In a sense, the state's history began with the Indians of the area and the Spanish explorers. A moral conflict of pro-slavery forces in the Civil War t...