The Election of 1864 and Nebraska
For the full story of Nebraska Territory during this dramatic era in American history, see James E. Potter, Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil ...
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What We Found
Flashback Friday: “Scopes Wasn’t the First”: Nebraska’s 1924 Anti-Evolution Trial – Adam Shapiro
The waning days of the 1924 presidential campaign found William Jennings Bryan back in his former home state of Nebraska. On Friday evening, October 17, 1924, the man ...
Robert Kennedy and the 1968 Nebraska campaign trail
“I learned one thing I will never forget,” said Robert F. Kennedy on April 27, 1968, “It is a long way across Nebraska by train.”
Kennedy had just finished an ...
The Patronage Battle Between Bryan and Hitchcock
Soon after William Jennings Bryan 's arrival in Nebraska from Illinois in the fall of 1887, his attacks upon the purveyors of patronage and the pampered monopolies and ...
Colonel John Miller Stotsenburg: Man of Valor
Some men live long and accomplish little. Others, cut down in their prime, accomplish much. Such a man was John Miller Stotsenburg.
He and General John Joseph ...
Mabel Gillespie: First Re-elected Woman in Legislature
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
Mabel Gillespie was one of the first women elected to the Nebraska legislature, and the first to be re-elected, ...
Nebraskan Perspectives on Slavery After The Civil War
At the brink of the Civil War, Nebraska Territory abolished slavery in 1861. As the war proceeded, many Nebraska soldiers fought for the Union while those at home kept ...
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