Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, signed into law on May 30, 1854, by President Franklin Pierce, was closely related to national and sectional politics in the 1850s. The ...
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What We Found
Nebraska’s Seventy-fifth, 1854-1929
The Diamond Jubilee celebrated by Nebraska in early November of 1929 didn't mark Nebraska's seventy-fifth year as a state, but its seventy-fifth as a political unit. The ...
The Double Holiday
May 30, the traditional Memorial Day, is a time for us to remember the dead. We especially honor those men and women who have given their lives in the defense of their ...
The Civil War and Nebraska, 1861
This year marks the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) of the beginning of the American Civil War on April 12, 1861, the date when Confederate forces opened fire on ...
Archeology of Nebraska’s Territorial Period (1854-1867)
Looking for a new outlook on our territorial history? See what archeology reveals about the new people who came into Nebraska beginning in 1854. Five territorial-era ...
“Big, Ugly Red Brick Buildings”: The Fight to Save Jobbers Canyon – Daniel D. Spegel
"The use of warehouses will offend some citizens. They will ask how a warehouse can be beautiful, for only state capitols or things that had an aesthetic intent can be ...
The Brownville Story: Portrait of a Phoenix, 1854-1974
The year was 1854, just a half-century after Lewis and Clark's valiant expedition into the Louisiana Territory, and thirteen years before the state of Nebraska would be ...
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Organization of Nebraska Territory
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, signed into law over 160 years ago on May 30, 1854, by President Franklin Pierce, was closely related to national and sectional politics in ...
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