Emory Wyman and Compulsory Voting
After Shelton resident Emory Wyman (1834-1929) was elected to the Nebraska House of Representatives in 1898, he wasted no time in introducing a bill on compulsory voting ...
Nebraska Legislature
What We Found
Lovers and Guinea Pigs in the Old State Capitol
When the third and present capitol was built, the second was temporarily left in place and the new one, completed in 1932, was begun around it. ...
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, ...
Nebraska’s 1921 Alien Land Law targeted Japanese immigrants
In 1921 the state legislature passed a law barring noncitizens from owning rural land or leasing it longer than five years. Because Japanese immigrants ...
Helen Keller Shocked at Nebraska’s Poor Financial Assistance for the Blind
It’s 1947, and the Nebraska legislature has not passed funding for educating and rehabilitating people with vision loss for twenty-five years. Who are ...
Buffalo Bill in the Nebraska Legislature
Buffalo Bill at age thirty-five. (RG3004-12)
Many of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody's exploits as a buffalo hunter, scout, and showman have been publicized ...
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