From the Kitchen Table to Congress: Doris Royal’s Tax Campaign
“Do you realize I haven’t contributed a dime to this farm today according to the IRS?” Doris Royal told her husband after a twelve-hour day pitching hay and feeding ...
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Flashback Friday: Would J. Sterling Morton have sacrificed his grandmother for political gain?
In honor of Arbor Day, Nebraska History associate editor Jim Potter examines part of the political career of Arbor Day founder J. Sterling Morton. Some dramatic anti-J. ...
The Curious Candidacy of Americus Liberator
In 1968 Secretary of State Frank Marsh formally recognized the “Peace on Earth Party,” which held its first convention in Omaha.[1] Then Herbert F. Hoover, fourth cousin ...
A Funny Post-Election Poem…and the Grisly Story Behind It
A bit of post-election humor has a dark backstory unrelated to politics. How did this piece of paper become part of History Nebraska's collections?
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William Jennings Bryan, Billy Sunday, and the Prohibition Party Ticket of 1920 ∙ Patricia C. Gaster
“We have come together to select a burial lot for John Barleycorn,” said Virgil G. Hinshaw in his opening address to Prohibition Party delegates on July 21, 1920. The ...
Flashback Friday: The 1968 Nebraska Republican Primary
Most political headlines in late 1967 and early 1968 centered on the Democrats: Senator Eugene McCarthy’s surprise showing in the New Hampshire primary, President Lyndon ...
Politics Makes for Strange Campaign Memorabilia
As the saying goes, politics makes for strange bedfellows. Although in the case of these items developed for Nebraska political candidates, it might be more accurate to ...
FDR’s Visit
Many national political candidates jet in and out of Nebraska without staying long. That was not the case when FDR came to visit in the fall of 1936.
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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 ...
Dawson County’s True Namesake
For a while, people assumed Dawson county was named after the first postmaster of Lincoln. As it turns out, the true namesake never even stepped foot in Nebraska.
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Patrick Egan and Nebraska’s Center For Irish Home Rule
Patrick Egan's political career spanned both sides of the Atlantic and included a stint in Lincoln, during which time he helped make the capital a center for Irish Home ...
The Making of a Senator: The Early Life of Hugh Butler
Senator Hugh Alfred Butler was one of Nebraska's most well-known, but least understood politicians. The voters of Nebraska who elected Butler to the United States Senate ...
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