November 5, 1929 - More than 150,000 spectators flooded Omaha for the Diamond Jubilee on Nov. 5, 1929. The “Parade of All Nations” celebrated the 75th anniversary of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act that ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Stephen Puleo talked about Stephen Douglas' proposal for the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the reaction across the country.

As the federal shutdown drags on, Democrats and Republicans alike who are thinking about running for the presidency in 2016 would do well to hit the books and study up on the political fallout from ...