Founded in 1874, the University of Nevada, Reno was established as Nevada’s land-grant institution under the Morrill Act of 1862. While we cannot change the past, public and land-grant universities ...

Abraham Lincoln is considered perhaps the most effective chief executive in the history of the United States. But one area ...

Lincoln’s 1863 signing of the Morrill Act established a system of like-minded universities known as Land Grant schools and provided federally donated land to be used specifically for higher ...