OVERLAND PARK — The Johnson County Library will host a Civil War history forum about the Kansas –Nebraska Act of 1854 Thursday night at 6:30 at the Central Resource Library, 9875 W. 87th St., Overland Park. The forum is part of the library’s “Legacies of the Civil War” series. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a compromise law designed to ease the Congressional dispute over the extension of slavery into new territories in the U.S. Instead, the law set off the territorial civil war called Bleeding Kansas. The forum will invite the public to discuss how they would have advised Pres. Franklin Pierce as the crisis concerning the law played out. The program is free and open to the public. To register, call (913) 826-4600 or visit the Web site Www.jocolibrary.org/civilwar.
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 4 p.m.
