This Day in History - July 2: UNMC/Nebraska Medicine named national Ebola training, education center

A Burwell teacher and Daughter of the American Revolution is sharing her family’s Revolutionary War history with students as the nation marks 250 years.

July 4, 1973 - Seward was designated “Nebraska’s Official Fourth of July City” by Governor J. James Exon in 1973.

Independence Day celebrations started a day early in 1901, when a display of fireworks at H. Hardy’s Ninety-nine Cent Store in Omaha was lit by a dropped match.

For more than a decade, the owners of Bottle Rocket Brewing Co. have brought the community together with patriotic home-brewed beer in a historic building.

‘We The People’: Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary