Stepping back in time. You get to see the people interacting with their environment and see the people using their material cultures. You get to see the people as they lived. I think it is really important for historians and students and scholars to look in the eyes of these pioneers and try to experience what they experienced. We continue our tour with lincoln, the brass got, with a tour of the cannard house. The house belong to the first secretary of state of nebraska and one of the men who chose lincoln as the state capital in 1867. Before lincoln became the village was the if you could call it that of lancaster. The population had been somewhere between 13 and 30. It was very, very small. There were no businesses here to speak of, the houses were very crude. When it was built, there is nothing here to attract the capital. Reason the capitol came here was for entirely different reasons. There was no navigable water here, there were no trees, there were no minerals, with the exceptio
Order your copy today. It is 13. 95 through the cspan online store at cspan. Org. Welcome to lincoln, nebraska on American History tv. This state capital of about 268,000 people is also home to the university of nebraska. With the help of our Time Warner Cable partners, and the next hour, we will explore the history of this city named for our nations 16th president. Coming up, a visit to the home of Thomas Kinard, one of the men responsible for moving the capital from omaha to lincoln following the civil war. The Capital Commissioners were having to make a statement because they had to rationalize moving the capital of nebraska from omaha, a city of several thousand people, to a village of 13 to 30, so they would put their money into something substantial to show their confidence in the city of lincoln existing. Later, explore the nebraska state capital archives and learn how the states third Capital Building broke the mold for legislative structures. His winning design was unique. It