In exactly one month, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its charter, February 15, 1869. Nebraska was only a couple of years old at the time, but state leaders knew it needed a university. UNL architecture librarian Kay Logan-Peters has written a book about th...

On October 9th, 2018, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential biographer Jon Meacham delivered the 2018 Governor’s Lecture in the Humanities at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln. His speech was titled “Tumult, Tragedy and Hope: America in 1968 From a Half-Century’s Perspective.”

150 years ago this year, the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska had just been born, a year after Nebraska had become a state. The Union Pacific Railroad had also started its steady march west. A forward-thinking bishop from Chicago used the railroad to spread the gospel and set up a string of small churc...

If you thought bathroom humor was something exclusive to modern times, think again. That’s what a group of University of Nebraska students found during the excavation of an ancient public restroom earlier this year in a Roman town in what is now southern Turkey. NET’s Jack Williams spoke with UNL ar...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Jon Meacham was the keynote speaker at the 23rd Annual Governor’s Lecture in the Humanities at the Lied Center in Lincoln, Nebraska on October 9, 2018. Meacham is the author of the new book, “The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels” and has a...

140 years ago this month, a group of 300 Northern Cheyenne Indians crossed the South Platte River near Ogallala, Nebraska. They were trying to go home, a 700 mile trek from what is now Oklahoma to their ancestral lands in Montana. Their journey ended in tragedy, but their arrival in Nebraska and a d...

It’s been a half-century since one of America’s most influential years, 1968. It was the year of the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy and general unrest across the nation. At the 23rd Annual Governor’s Lecture in the Humani...

A spark has been rekindled on the Omaha Indian reservation in northeast Nebraska, where members of the Ponca tribe are doing what they can to save their endangered language. With only a handful of fluent speakers still around, tribal elders say it falls on teaching the next generation to keep it ali...

A spark has been rekindled on the Omaha Indian reservation in northeast Nebraska, where members of the tribe are doing what they can to save their endangered language. With only a handful of fluent speakers still around, tribal elders say it falls on teaching the next generation to keep it alive. Th...

He’s known for his aggressive, almost angry paintings, work that includes familiar symbols and bright colors. For Matt Sesow, art has become therapy, an outlet for an accident that happened more than 40 years ago along a grassy runway near Lincoln. The mishap changed his life, but also opened up a w...