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Textile Industry Goes to War: Women’s Clothing in the 1930s and 1940s

Muriel R. Wilkins, who attended high school in Washington County during the late 1930s, in 1980 recalled the effect that World War II had upon her clothing styles and ...

Thanksgiving in the 1890s

Two Thanksgiving reports from the 1890s illustrate the coming of hard times to Nebraska. The 1890s saw the country’s worst economic depression until the 1930s. ā€œThe ...

Thanksgiving in Lincoln, 1907

"One of the quietest Thanksgiving days observed in many years was passed in Lincoln yesterday," said theĀ Nebraska StateĀ JournalĀ of November 29, 1907. "With no football ...

Thanksgiving in Omaha, 1909

Nearly a month before the official Thanksgiving holiday in 1909, theĀ Omaha Daily NewsĀ published mayor JamesĀ Dahlman'sĀ plea for what he called a "sane Thanksgiving." ...

Thayer, John M.

John M. Thayer (1820-1906), Nebraska plainsman, soldier, legislator, and chief executive, was interviewed in old age by theĀ Omaha World-HeraldĀ about his Civil War ...

Thayer’s Invention

John Nelson's photograph of a baseball game includes a catcher with face mask in the left foreground.Ā NSHSĀ RG3542:PH:097-12Ā  The catcher's mask in baseball was invented ...

T. R. Tours Nebraska

President George Bush's recent trip to Nebraska was a logistical tour-de-force. The presidential advance team, scads of Secret Service men, state and local police, ...

Those Fish Stories

Improbable fishing yarns have been around as long as fish and fishing. TheĀ Norfolk Weekly News-JournalĀ in the summer of 1907 reported an escalating series of such tales ...

Those Jitneys!

The advent of the automobile changed transportation for many Nebraskans. In larger communities, even if you couldn't afford a car, you could buy a ride in a taxi, or ...

Timber Culture Act of 1873

Of all the land laws affecting Nebraska, the Timber Culture Act of 1873, designed to promote the planting of trees, was perhaps the least successful and subject to many ...

Titanic

The recent opening of a multi-million-dollar film epic about the April 1912 sinking ofĀ TitanicĀ has sparked new interest in the ill-fated liner and her passengers. Even ...

Too Much Beef, a Football Complaint

The football schedules of early Nebraska teams sometimes matchedĀ­or mismatched-high school and college teams, and paired both with teams organized by other groups such ...

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