"Get government off our backs" has been a rallying cry of the 1980s, but fifty years ago therewere similar calls to reduce the number of laws on the books. A 1931 ...
The first territorial legislature of Nebraska convened in Omaha on January 16, 1855. Among the first lawmakers was H. P. Bennet of Nebraska City, described by a ...
Ada Cole Bittenbender, a leader in the woman suffrage and temperance movements, was also one of Nebraska's first woman lawyers and only the third woman admitted to ...
A letter from William Jennings Bryan to Mary Baird, his fiancee, was written on November 21, 1883, from Jacksonville, Illinois, where Bryan had opened a law office. ...
During the six decades from 1859 to 1919, at least 45 men and two women died at the hands of lynch mobs in Nebraska while during the same period, only 23 or 24 ...
Opening day at Nebraska's first unicameral legislative session, January 5, 1937. NSHS RG2183-1937-105-1 (Left).
In the 1934 election, Nebraskans voted on two measures ...
The Library/Archives Division holds a small collection of papers relating to Bayard H. Paine. Paine was a judge for many years and served on the Nebraska State Supreme ...
John Lewis Teeters was born at Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Albert and Ellen Baker Wood Teeters. In 1886 he graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelors degree. ...
Tom Mooney, Curator of Manuscripts at History Nebraska ran across a booklet containing the Ordinances of the City of Beatrice, Nebraska from the year 1885 recently and ...
Policy-making has always been a delicate business with a lot of formal rules that must be followed. But as Nebraska State Senator Bill Avery explains in the Spring 2013 ...
Official portrait of Judge Joseph William Woodrough
In 1897, a twenty-four-year-old attorney came to Omaha to start his career in earnest. He lacked a law ...
October is American Archives Month. 5 tips to help you locate early District Court Cases to help you with your research and genealogy.
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