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 ...

Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural took place in an atmosphere of crisis and foreboding, heightened by the armed troops that patrolled the streets and the Capitol grounds. South Carolina seceded from ...

"The one hundredth anniversary reenactment of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration on the fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and sixty one"--Container. Cast: Narrated by Roger Mudd.

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 ...