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The Nebraska Lectures will expand to a year-long series in celebration of the university's 150th anniversary in 2019. The first lecture, on Jan. 23, will examine the history of the Nebraska Unicameral. Pictured is the charter that officially created the university on Feb. 15, 1869.

Happy Charter Day, Huskers

February 14, 2026

Charter Week reflections

February 18, 2019

Visitor Center Glow Big Red

Husker pride fires up for Glow Big Red

February 14, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska's Diane Mendenhall reads about a key historic moment in the university's history as she looks at the N150 traveling exhibition in the Nebraska Union.

Exhibition to take N150 celebration statewide

February 14, 2019

Herbie Husker waves the "N" flag before Nebraska's player introductions.

Huskers' halftime hoopla celebrates Charter Week

February 13, 2019

With an image of Architecture Hall — the university's first library — in the background, Kay Logan-Peters, professor of libraries, delivers an N150 Nebraska Lecture at the Champion’s Club on Feb. 12. Nearly 300 attended the event, which featured a historic tour of campus architecture, spanning the university’s first building to the roots of the modern-day campus.

Logan-Peters takes 300 on historic tour

February 13, 2019

Military cadets line up outside University Hall, the first building on campus, in this undated photo. The history of the first buildings on campus is the focus of the Feb. 12 Nebraska Lecture.

Charter Week continues with historic architecture tour

February 12, 2019

If you have any questions or concerns, please email Justina Clark, director of undergraduate research, at jclark17@unl.edu.

Huskers, Sasse kick off Charter Week celebration

February 11, 2019

The Nebraska Lectures will expand to a year-long series in celebration of the university's 150th anniversary in 2019. The first lecture, on Jan. 23, will examine the history of the Nebraska Unicameral. Pictured is the charter that officially created the university on Feb. 15, 1869.

Charter? What charter?

February 11, 2019

Lincoln, 1800s, University Hall

'Dear Old Nebraska U' charts 150 years of campus growth

January 30, 2019