November 5, 1929 - More than 150,000 spectators flooded Omaha for the Diamond Jubilee on Nov. 5, 1929. The “Parade of All ...

(“The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854,” John R. Wunder and Joann M. Ross, editors, University of Nebraska Press, 220 pages, $30 paperback.) One of the most important events to affect Nebraska came before ...

Born: November 23, 1804, Hillsborough, New Hampshire... Pierce's strong support for the Comrpromise of 1850 appeared to indicate that he was not going to press the issue of slavery. With the country ...

I thought my comparison of Democratic health care legislation with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in my Wednesday Examiner column was an original idea. After all, even David Broder and Lou Cannon ...

Historians tend to present “a carefully curated inventory of provocations” when explaining “the collapse of sectional compromise” that led to the Civil War, but that collapse was experienced in real ...

Nebraska has no Civil War battlegrounds. It wasn't even a state during the war. Perhaps these facts explain why many think, in the larger story of the Civil War, Nebraska deserves no more than a ...