I was quite surprised and pleased when this morning, Sammy asked me what the capital of Nebraska was. Apparently, he was watching something on DVD and heard the term “capital city”, thus prompting him to curiosity over the capital of Nebraska. Seeing as Mom was there and I knew that she needed something […]
We hit Elkhorn Nebraska next during our game, and I found it amusing that we did considering that Elkhorn isn’t even a city of Douglas County anymore. I remember that much because the Elkhorn Nebraska thing was such a big annexation issue back in 2005, and my parents tend to like talking about big […]
Did I or did I not mention that I’m a bit of a history nut? I bring that up now because Samuel came up to me and asked about the story of Nebraska. And when someone asks for the story of something, then they are essentially asking about the HISTORY of that something. […]
The state of Nebraska officially became a state of the United States of America in the first of March 1867 not long after the American Civil War had ended. It was the thirty-seventh state created and recognized by the union of states. Around the same time, the official state capital was moved […]
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is actually the very first University of Nebraska – some even call it the “original University of Nebraska” – before the University of Nebraska came to be the name of one of the two public university systems in the state. Of course, what this means is that among all […]
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a historical document which led to the creation of territories in both Kansas and Nebraska. Officially signed in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was geared towards allowing settlement on certain pieces of land and giving white settlers the freedom to choose whether or not they want slavery in their territories. […]