When author Bess Streeter Aldrich brought Hollywood to Nebraska
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Many Nebraskans remember when Terms of Endearment held its world premiere in Lincoln on November 22, 1983. The movie was partly filmed ...
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How Nebraska’s Bess Streeter Aldrich became a bestselling author
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Bess Streeter Aldrich became a bestselling author with novels such as A Lantern in Her Hand (1928), Spring Came on Forever (1935), and ...
For career woman in 1930, “home’s still home”
"I honestly believe there is no sound reason why women should not be in business," Miss Loretta Larsen told the Omaha Bee-News in 1930. Larsen appeared in ...
“Wine” poisoning kills five in Lyons, 1930
Five young men, ages 17 to 22, died in Lyons after drinking what they thought was wine. A report in the Omaha Bee-News (Feb. 23, 1930) explained that the jug actually ...
What was this 100-pound steamboat anchor doing in a central Nebraska field?
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Gloria Liljestrand-Barber found this four-foot-high, 100-pound anchor in 1985. It was mostly buried in a hayfield on her ...
How to make corn mush (1861)
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Many Nebraska pioneers remembered living on cornmeal when there was little else to eat. Most common and easily prepared was ...
Gabriel Field—The Face of a Soldier
By Patricia C. Gaster, Assistant Editor
This article first appeared in the January-February-March 2010 issue of Nebraska History News, published by the ...
Nebraska’s 1921 Alien Land Law targeted Japanese immigrants
In 1921 the state legislature passed a law barring noncitizens from owning rural land or leasing it longer than five years. Because Japanese immigrants ...
Journey to Freedom – Celia and Eliza Grayson’s escape from Nebraska slavery
Editor's note: Below is the first part of "Journey to Freedom from Nebraska Territory," from the Summer 2022 issue of Nebraska History Magazine. Read the complete ...
Courthouse and Jail Rocks
By David L. Bristow, Editor
How were Courthouse and Jail Rocks formed?
Imagine the North Platte Valley filled to the brim with land, as it once was. ...
Didn’t like his wife’s cooking – a 1934 Omaha divorce sensation
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Frank wanted attention and he got it. Syndicated by the Associated Press, the above photo and caption appeared in newspapers ...
The man who scored Nebraska’s first-ever touchdown died in the Soviet Gulag
By David L. Bristow, Editor
May 17, 2023
Consider these three people:
A young man who scored the University of Nebraska’s first-ever ...
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