Advice to the Legislature
"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 ...
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University of Nebraska, 1878
Chartered as a land-grant institution by the first regular session of the Nebraska Legislature on February 15, 1869, the University of Nebraska opened its doors to ...
University of Nebraska, Expense
The expense of a postsecondary education was once considerably less than it is today. The original charter granted the University of Nebraska in 1869 by the Nebraska ...
An Unmerited Request
Nebraska state agencies recently submitted their budget requests for the 1991-93 fiscal year.Time will tell how these requests will be received by the Legislature and ...
Woman Suffrage
The greatest effort of nineteenth-century suffragists in Nebraska was their attempt to amend the state constitution in 1881 and 1882 to provide for woman suffrage. In ...
Labor Day, 1889
Labor Day is a day of rest for most of us--the last holiday of the summer. But Nebraska's first Labor Day, a hundred years ago, offered little respite for those who ...
Lincoln Lot Sales
The relocation of the Nebraska capital from Omaha to Lincoln in 1867 necessitated the erection of buildings to house the legislature and state institutions. It was ...
Banking in Nebraska Territory
Nebraska delegate Henry W. Yates addressed the World's Congress of Bankers and Financiers in June of 1894 in Chicago on Nebraska's experience with wildcat banks during ...
Henry T. Clarke
Henry Tefft Clarke, pioneer legislator, freighter, and bridge builder, settled in Bellevue, Nebraska, in 1855. He became a steamboat agent at Bellevue and later began a ...
Butler’s Compensation Claim
David Butler, Nebraska's first state governor, was one of the most controversial figures ever to hold the office. Faced with the problems of transition from a ...
Casting the Ballot
Nebraskans at the polls this November will mark standardized printed ballots. But this precise regularity of ballots has not always been the case. In Nebraska's early ...
Spitting Prohibited!
Spittoons are visible on the floor in this circa-1910 photo by John Nelson of Ericson. RG3542-95-20
By Patricia C. Gaster
This article was first ...
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