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"Tragic Prelude", a famous mural by John Steuart Curry depicting Brown holding a rifle in one hand and a Bible in the other, is prominently displayed in the Kansas State Capitol in [[Topeka]].<ref>http://www.governor.ks.gov/Facts/kscapitol_johnbrown.htm</ref>
"Tragic Prelude", a famous mural by John Steuart Curry depicting Brown holding a rifle in one hand and a Bible in the other, is prominently displayed in the Kansas State Capitol in [[Topeka]].<ref>http://www.governor.ks.gov/Facts/kscapitol_johnbrown.htm</ref>
===Historiography===
===Historiography===
"Bleeding Kansas" of 1851-64 has been a major topic of historical research and debate. In the first wave of 19th-century historiography, scholars included Kansas under the broader rubric of the "irrepressible" national conflict over slavery. Revisionist scholars in the early 20th century, led by Kansas historian James C. Malin, a conservative, denied the need for conflict, suggested that Kansas would have become a free state even without the effort of New England antislavery settlers, and debunked the legend of John Brown. New scholarship in the 1950s on the power dynamics of land settlement further displaced the issues of slavery and sectional conflict from the center of understanding of Bleeding Kansas.
"Bleeding Kansas" of 1851-64 has been a major topic of historical research and debate. In the first wave of 19th century historiography, scholars included Kansas under the broader rubric of the "irrepressible" national conflict over slavery. Revisionist scholars in the early 20th century, led by Kansas historian James C. Malin, a conservative, denied the need for conflict, suggested that Kansas would have become a free state even without the effort of New England antislavery settlers, and debunked the legend of John Brown. New scholarship in the 1950s on the power dynamics of land settlement further displaced the issues of slavery and sectional conflict from the center of understanding of Bleeding Kansas.
In the 1970s-1980s, a new social and cultural history led by [[Neoabolitionist]] historians reappraised the antislavery movement - recognizing its complexity, its centrality to the creation of Kansas as a free state, and its moral concerns. Later historians have again shifted their interpretation away from issues of the Civil War toward the experience of frontier and questions of how gender and racial identities were enacted and negotiated in the process of settling Kansas.<ref>Gunja Sengupta, "Bleeding Kansas". ''Kansas History'' 2001-02 24(4): 318-341. [http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/2001winter_sengupta.pdf online]</ref>
In the 1970s-1980s, a new social and cultural history led by [[Neoabolitionist]] historians reappraised the antislavery movement - recognizing its complexity, its centrality to the creation of Kansas as a free state, and its moral concerns. Later historians have again shifted their interpretation away from issues of the Civil War toward the experience of frontier and questions of how gender and racial identities were enacted and negotiated in the process of settling Kansas.<ref>Gunja Sengupta, "Bleeding Kansas". ''Kansas History'' 2001-02 24(4): 318-341. [http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/2001winter_sengupta.pdf online]</ref>