Main Topic: Our State

Topic: Early Nebraska to Statehood

Speaker: Jim McKee

The History of the University of Nebraska

The location of the University of Nebraska in the state’s capital may seem like a foregone conclusion now, but in the 1860s the new state’s senators chartered 14 other locations before finally settling on Lincoln. The state’s academic stronghold might well have been the “University of Nebraska at Wyoming.” McKee takes a look at the university’s past.