March 4, 1861 - Nebraska’s Capitol City’s name sake, Abraham Lincoln, gave his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861. In the speech, often called the “most important speech in American history,” as ...

President Barack Obama used Abraham Lincoln’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bibles at his swearing in ceremony in 2013, two presidents used a chair George Washington sat in at his inaugural and George ...

May 2, 1944 - German prisoners of war were sent from Camp Atlanta to help farmers finish the previous year’s corn harvest in May, 1944. In O’Neill, the snow storm led some of the farmers in the area ...