2. Nebraska joined the Union as the 37th state on March 1, 1867. The people elected David Butler as the first governor, and Lincoln was selected as the site of the state capital on July 29.

The protests in Lincoln and at least 11 other Nebraska cities were part of planned national protests against the Trump ...

They are, after all, residents of the Irish capital of Nebraska. The northeast Nebraska town was named after its founder, Gen. John O’Neill, a native of Ireland and a Civil War veteran who ...