University Law Building 1917

The Law building on UNL campus was used for the regents trials during WWI in the year of 1918. The trials were held over 12 professors at the University that had been perceived as anti-war or pro-German. Most of these professors were found to be in good standing as American citizens, except for two, Professor's G.A.W. Luckey and C.E. Persinger were both fired by the University for being to anti-war and pro-German.

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